100+ Life mottos to live by to be your best version

n life you need some mottos to live by. As old-fashioned as it may sound, having a personal motto and keeping it your centre of focus and practice can help you a lot in moving forward to a better version of yourself.

In this post I have made a list of more than 100 life mottos with great care and effort for you to choose from that can install courage, love, hope and kindness.

These mottos are very short, so you will be able to easily remember them and implement them in your daily life.

Even if you choose just one life motto and decide to implement it in your daily life, you will see that it will give you a lot of courage.

For example, a simple life motto ‘Will this matter a year from now?’, can help you to not sweat the small stuff. It can help you to stop making a mountain out of a molehill and reduce your worries and anxiety.

One of my personal life mottos is ‘What one can be, one must be’ and ‘Surrender’.

It gives me hope. It lets me come back to who I am when I lose track of myself and just the simple word, ‘Surrender’ eases me and lets me let go and not try to control things.

I hope you will love these mottos and find inspiration from them.

What is a life motto?

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A life motto is a personal phrase, a short sentence or a quote to help you live your life the way you want to. It can serve as a wonderful reminder for you to become a better version and give your courage, hope and confidence when you need it.

A life motto is a mantra for life which you can say to yourself when things are going tough and they give you the necessary direction to move in.

A life motto is like a tattoo for your life that is not inked.

Why you should have a life motto

Everybody should have a life motto. And here are a few reasons why

To Have a personal mantra for life
To navigate through life better
To be consistent in reaching your goals
To handle difficult situations with grace
To gain hope, courage and confidence
To not be directionless in life
And lastly, to practice living life properly

How to Use a good life motto

Personally, here is how I would like you to use a life motto:

Choose a life motto and make it your everything. Remember this motto by heart and practice it in your daily life. You can start by practising a life motto for a week or a month or a year or your entire life.

Yes, a whole life can go by practising a simple life motto.

You could practice a motto such as Nothing to “Get right” your whole life, or you could practice “Fall seven times, stand up eight” all your life, and it could be the reason why you never quit, why you never gave up and the reason why you succeeded.

So find a good life motto to practice for a week or a month. Plant it in your heart and make it your centre of being.

You could even write it out somewhere and stick it on the wall by your bedside so you see it every time you wake up.

I have printed a few myself and have pinned them on my vision board and they help me a lot in staying in track.

So with this, let’s start with the life mottos.

100+ Life mottos to live by

Below is a list of life mottos that will fit any of your life situations perfectly. They are meant to inspire practices for success, courage, kindness, love, hope, mindfulness and gratitude.

I hope you find your own personal motto to move through life.

So let’s begin and pin for later

Life motto for success

1.Fall Sven times, stand up eight

2. Little by little, a little becomes a lot

3. 80% of success is showing up

4. Will this matter a year from now?

5. Have more than you show, speak less than you know

6. Try not to become a man of success, but rather to become a man of value

7. Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion

8. Make your life your message

9. Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion

10. My motto is to try again

11. Don’t wait for opportunity, create it

12. What seems so hard now will one day be your warm-up

13. He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life

14. Allow yourself to be a beginner

15. Be the change you wish to see in the world

16. If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain

17. If you can’t beat fear, do it scared

18. Great things never come from comfort zones

Life mottos about love

19. Spread love wherever you go. Let no one come to you without leaving happier

20. Connect with Compassion

21. Breathe in and bring love to the places that need it

22. One loving step at a time

23. Don’t plant anything but love

24. Let love bloom

25. Let Love love you

26. Move with love

27. Send love to all who cross your path

28. Love and let go

29. We are put on Earth to Love

30. Surrender to love

31. Let love in

32. Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words

Life mottos for happiness

33. No mud, no lotus

34. Let go and let God

35. Forgive like its the end of the world

36. If it costs you your peace, it’s too expensive

37. Less is more

38. You are not your thoughts

39. This too shall pass

40. Treasure others

41. Drop the story

42. Let go. Let go. Let go.

43. If it comes let it, if it goes let it

44. If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

45. Be grateful for triggers. They point where you are not free

46. Not everyone you lose is a loss

47. Solitude over toxicity

48. Make prayer your dwelling place

49. Remember to ask, what’s the gift in this?

50. True change is within. Leave the outside as it is

Life mottos to bring mindfulness

51. Pause and breathe

52. Be present

53. Nothing to “get right”

54. Take 5 mindful breaths

55. Nothing is wrong in the present moment

56. Embrace suffering, and let it reveal to you the way to peace

57. Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet

58. Keep it light

59. Come back to the present moment

59. Buddha is inside you

60. Let it pass

61. Let each breath cleanse your inner chaos

62. A cup of tea is a cup of peace

Life mottos to be your best version

63. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall

64. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined

65. Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience

66. Discover your gift and then give it away

67. Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant

68. If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it in the beginning

69. Do the Earth a favour, don’t hide your magic

70. Make your own path

71. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

72. Old ways don’t open new doors.

73. The way to do a great deal is to keep on doing a little

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Life mottos for courage

74. You are enough

75. Grow through what you go through

76. They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds

77. I bend, but I do not break

78. Trust your true nature

79. You are a blessed being, so act like a blessed being

80. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

81. Who else but us?

82. 0% of me is competing with you

83. Have courage. Be kind.

84. I am not afraid to be seen trying

85. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of people

86. Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much

87. The only thing worse than being blind is having sight, but no vision

88. Because you are alive, everything is possible

Life mottos about kindness

89. Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves

90. Be kind whenever possible. Its always possible

91. Ask yourself: have you been kind today?

92. Nurture the garden of loving kindness

93. Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out

94. You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force

95. Be the reason someone believes in kindness

96. Make kindness the norm

97. Always be a little kinder than necessary

98. All love eventually becomes help

99. Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness

100. Be kind to every kind, not just mankind

101. Be someone’s sunshine when their skies are grey.

102. If you’re helping someone and expecting something in return, you’re doing business, not kindness

103. There’s no such thing as a small act of kindness

104. Your inner wise self loves you unconditionally

Which life mottos will you practice?

I hope they inspired you and gave you a boost in wanting to live life courageously. Plant them in your heart, whichever resonated with you the most and practice them throughout your daily life.

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100+ Life mottos to live by to be your best version

What is a life motto?

Why you should have a life motto

How to Use a good life motto