Good Quotes to Live By

Life is full of contradictions: good and bad times, happiness and despair, success and failure. We all need inspiration in those darker times and a motivation to move on towards success. At such times, a simple quote by a successful person may prove sufficient to encourage any person. There are several such famous quotes by notable people all over the world that inspire us and also help in understanding the meaning of life. Here are some good quotes to live by.

Meaningful Quotes to Live By

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
~ Albert Einstein

I believe in angels, the kind that heaven sends, I am surrounded by angels, but I call them friends.
~ Anonymous

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
~ Benjamin Franklin

One day at a time: this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful it will be worth remembering.
~ Anonymous

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
~ Colin Powell

If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.
~ Jim Rohn

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.
~ Mary Anne Radmacher

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
~ Leonardo da Vinci

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
~ Edmund Burke

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
~ Theodore Roosevelt

Love is the virtue of the heart, Sincerity the virtue of the mind, decision the virtue of the will, courage the virtue of the spirit.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
~ The Buddha

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
~ Henry David Thoreau

If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
~ Desiderata

Funny Quotes to Live By

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak!
~ Anonymous

Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.
~ Bertrand Russell

Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
~ Jean Sibelius

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.
~ Montaigne

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
~ Truman Capote

If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
~ Anatole France

Hope these famous and good quotes to live by, were enjoyable. They will definitely be helpful to motivate and encourage people in the darker times of life. Ciao!