70 Inspiring Life Is What You Make It Quotes

When we fail, we have way too many excuses. We blame that co-worker or that friend. We blame the weather for making us feel sluggish and unable to work. We blame our slow laptop or a bad headache. Indeed, life wouldn’t be life if things didn’t keep getting in our way.

Life Is What You Make It Quotes

At some point though, we need to realize that we are in control of a multitude of things in our lives that can make a difference. For example, do you marathon that enticing Netflix series or do you work on your passive income project? Do you spend hours on social media or do you take 1-2 hours of everyday to learn a new language or new skill?

We believe in you! You can surely make your dreams a reality with the strength of your resolve and will. Gain motivation from these life is what you make it quotes. 

What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. Your answer lie inside of you. – Denis Waitley

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far. – Swami Vivekananda

marcus aurelius quote

Our life is what our thoughts make it. – Marcus Aurelius

Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it. – Irving Berlin

Life is what you make it. Your flows are makeshift. I draw this off inspiration, you trace shit. – Pusha T. Clipse

Your life is a result of the choices you make quote

Your life is a result of the choices you make. If you don’t like your life, it is time to start making better choices. – Unknown

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. – George Bernard Shaw

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. – John D. Rockefeller

Everything in your life is a reflection of a choice you have made. If you want a different result, make a different choice. – Unknown

Things are only worth what you make them worth. – Jean Baptiste Moliere

john r wooden quote

Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life. – John R. Wooden

This life…is what you make it. No matter what you are going to mess up sometimes, it’s a universal truth. But the good part is, you get to decide how you’re going to mess it up. – Unknown

And I say, the meaning of life is what you make it. There will be as many different meaningful lives as there are people to live them. – AC Grayling

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. – Steve Jobs

Life is what you make it so make the best of it. – Shay Anthony

mark caine quote

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. – Mark Caine

Life is what you make it…You are what your life makes you…So spend time in making your life. – Vidhi Tiwari

Happiness is not a goal… it’s a by-product of a life well-lived. – Eleanor Roosevelt

If you snooze, you lose; and if you snore, you lose more. – Phyllis George

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for a newer and richer experience. – Eleanor Roosevelt

carol burnett quote

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. – Carol Burnett

Do not think that life consists of dress and show. Remember that everyone’s life is measured by the power that that individual has to make the world better— this is all life is. – Washington

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works. – Miguel de Cervantes

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure. – William Feather

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. – Marcus Aurelius

dr seuss quote

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. – Dr. Seuss

This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you’re going to mess up sometimes, it’s a universal truth. – Marilyn Monroe

We are not given a good or a bad life. We are given a life. It’s up to us to make it good or bad. – Unknown

Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it. – Unknown

May you live all the days of your life. – Jonathan Swift

khematic saying quote

As you think so shall you become. – Khematic Saying

Your life is in your hands, make of it what you choose. – John Kehoe

Life is like a sewer, what you get out of it depends on what you put into it. – Tom Lehrer

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. – Buddha

You live a true life if you make it your care to be what you seem. – Roman Proverb

chamillionaire quote

Life is what you make of it. Don’t make excuses – make it happen. – Chamillionaire

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. – Henry David Thoreau

Life… you can make it easy on yourself or you can make it hard. – Deep Roy

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life. – James Allen

If you choose to submit to your failures, then you won’t have much success in your life. – Anurag Prakash Ray

d h lawrence quote

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. – D. H. Lawrence

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. – Mae West

Every little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. – Marcus Aurelius

Life is what you make it. So why not make it a beautiful one full of happiness and joy. – Anurag Prakash Ra

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts. – Soren Kierkegaard

nishan panwar quote

Life is what you make it and I choose to make mine a happy one, full of fun and laughter and you are more than welcome to join me. – Nishan Panwar

It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have a life at all – in which case, you fail by default. – J.K. Rowling

Love the life you live. Live the life you love. – Bob Marley

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

This life is worth living, we can say since it is what we make it…The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. – William James

henry david thoreau quote

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. – Henry David Thoreau

Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something. – Ashton Kutcher

Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it. All anyone can do is to point out ways and means which have been helpful to others. Perhaps they will serve as suggestions to stimulate your own thinking until you know what it is that will fulfill you, will help you to find out what you want to do with your life. – Eleanor Roosevelt

My theory on life is that life is beautiful. Life doesn’t change. You have a day, and a night, and a month, and a year. We people change – we can be miserable or we can be happy. It’s what you make of your life. – Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

david brinkley quote

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. – David Brinkley

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing. – Seneca

Do one thing every day that scares you. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Within yourself lies the cause of whatever enters into your life. To come into the full realization of your own awakened interior powers is to be able to condition your life in exact accord with what you would have it. – Ralph Waldo Trine

susan polis schutz quote

This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy. – Susan Polis Schutz

Life’s like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Live your own life, for you will die your own death. – Roman Proverb

Once you know what direction to take, finding the path to it becomes easy. – Preeti Shenoy

wayne dyer quote

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds. –Wayne Dyer

Man did not weave the web of life: he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. –Chief Seattle

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for. – Bob Marley

If life is what you make it, the building blocks are your desire and your passion. – Chloe Thurlow

nehru quote

Life is a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will. – Nehru

Your life is what you make it. So, don’t blame others when you screw up. – Unknown

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

In order to write about life first you must live it. – Ernest Hemingway