60 Intentional Living Quotes For Your Best Life

Living with intention is all about choosing joy, making mindful decisions, and shaping a life that feels meaningful and fulfilling. It’s about aligning your daily actions with what truly matters to you—whether that’s personal growth, inner peace, or simply savoring the little moments that make life beautiful. These intentional living quotes are here to inspire you to create a life that feels good from the inside out. Here are 60 uplifting words of wisdom from some of the greatest thinkers, leaders, and visionaries to help you live with purpose and joy every day.

1-10: Intentional Living Quotes and Purpose

1. “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” – Pablo Picasso
2. “Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.” – Buddha  
3. “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
4. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker
5. “Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.” – Rumi
6. “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn  
7. “Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon.” – Mary Oliver
8.  “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau
9. “The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.” – Nathaniel Branden
10. “Intentional days create a life on purpose.”- Adrienne Enns

11-20: Personal Growth and Positive Mindset

11. “Great things never come from comfort zones.” – Roy T. Bennett
12. “Hard work and self-motivation are the most powerful forces in achieving success.” – Jim Rohn
13. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”– Oscar Wilde
14. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right—for you’ll be criticized anyway.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
15.  “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” – Maya Angelou.
16.  “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford
17. “Only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
18. “Live with purpose. Don’t let others’ choices define your own.” – Mindy Hall
19. “The best story you can write is the one you live.” – Nora Roberts
20. “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” – Jim Rohn

21-30: Wisdom and Inner Peace

21. “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
22.  “Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.” – Buddha
23. “The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” – William James.
24. “The best things in life aren’t things.” – Art Buchwald
25.  “Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.” – Buddha
26. “Let go of your values, and you let go of yourself.” – John C. Maxwell
27.  “You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.” – Eckhart Tolle
28. “When you align your daily actions with your long-term goals, success follows.” – Steven Covey
29. “The power of intention can transform your life in ways you never imagined.” – Wayne Dyer
30. “The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings.” – Kakuzo Okakura

31-40: Success and Leadership

31. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
32.  “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” – Jack Welch.
33.  “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” – John F. Kennedy
34.  “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” – Peter Drucker.
35. “The only way to achieve greatness is through a sincere effort and dedication.” – Arthur Ashe
36.  “The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.” – Ronald Reagan
37.  “A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.” – Lao Tzu
38.  “The price of greatness is responsibility.” – Winston Churchill
39. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” – Maya Angelou
40. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill.

41-50: Cultivating Joy

41. “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama.
42. “The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.” – E.E. Cummings.
43. “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” – Marcus Aurelius.
44. “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson.
45. “The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.” – Henry Ward Beecher.
46. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” – Mahatma Gandhi.
47. “To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.” – Buddha.  
48. “There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.” – George Sand.
49. “The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” – Joseph Addison.  
50. “We cannot control the world, but we can control how we respond to it.” – Epictetus.

51-60: Self-Motivation

51. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain.
52. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” – Jim Rohn.
53. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt.
54. “Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” – Francis of Assisi.
55. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt.
56. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius.
57. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius.
58. “Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.” – Brené Brown.
59. “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” – Zig Ziglar.
60. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” – Albert Einstein.

Embrace the Joy of Intentional Living

Living with intention isn’t about perfection—it’s about making small, conscious choices that add up to a life filled with joy, purpose, and meaning. Every day is a new chance to align your actions with what truly matters. Let these quotes be a reminder that you have the power to create a life you love, one intentional step at a time.

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