115 Inspiring Feeling Lost quotes to encourage you
Feeling lost in life or feeling stuck happens to all of us from time to time. The key is recognizing this feeling and taking steps to change and move past the situation.
But sometimes we just need words of comfort, or encouragement in the moment.
And what better words than these feeling lost quotes to inspire, encourage, and hold your hand as you take that first step to getting unstuck or to find yourself again?
But remember, even in the toughest times, there’s always a glimmer of hope, a chance to turn things around, and a new beginning waiting just around the corner.
In this post, we’ve gathered 40 powerful quotes from some of the greatest minds, past and present, to help you find inspiration, strength, and the courage to keep going.
These words of wisdom are here to remind you that bad things don’t last forever, and the best things in life often come after the hardest struggles.
So, take a deep breath, embrace the journey, and let these quotes be your guiding light as you step into the next chapter of your life.
Inspiring quotes for when you feel lost in life
“The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.” — Harry Golden”Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.” — Walter Anderson.
2. The best things in life aren’t things.” — Art Buchwald.
3. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” — Maya Angelou
4. “Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.” — Henry Rollins.
5. “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” — Albert Einstein.
6. “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” — Seneca.
7. Let go of the life you have planned to embrace the one that is waiting for you.” — Joseph Campbell.
8. A good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.” — Bertrand Russell.
9. Tough times never last, but tough people do.” — Robert H. Schuller.
10. You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.” — Jodi Picoult.
11. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” — Alan Kay.
12. We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” — Joseph Campbell.
13. “The real tragedy of life is not in being limited to one talent, but in the failure to use that one talent.” — Edgar W. Work.
14. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” — Lao Tzu
15. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” — Henry David Thoreau
16. “Out of difficulties grow miracles.” — Jean de La Bruyère.
17. “You are part of your process, not apart from it.” — Shannon L. Alder.
18. “It’s a beautiful thing when a career and a passion come together.” — Unknown
19. “The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson.
20. “When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” — Paulo Coelho.
21. “We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.” — Dr. Henry Link
22. The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” — Joseph Campbell”
23. I know my past will keep coming up, but I’ll just have to keep going.” — Demi Lovato.
24. There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” — Leonard Cohen.
25. What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” — Plutarch.
26. The best way out is always through.” — Robert Frost”
27. The only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.” — Zig Ziglar.
28. The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.” — Nathaniel Branden.
29. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson.
30.”It’s never too late to be what you might have been.” — George Eliot
31. “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” — Napoleon Hill
32. “Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter.” — Dan Reeves
33. The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.” — Jordan Belfort”
34. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” — Confucius
35. The lotus flower blooms most beautifully from the deepest and thickest mud.” — Buddhist Proverb.
36. Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.” — Arthur Ashe.
37. The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.” — Abraham Lincoln.
38. Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.” — Nido Qubein.
39. “The only way out is through.” — Robert Frost.
40″Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” — Charles R. Swindoll
41, “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.” — William Butler Yeats.
42. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” — Confucius.
43. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt.
44. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson.
45. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill.
46.”You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — C.S. Lewis.
47. “The best way out is always through.” — Robert Frost.
48. “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt.
49. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” — George Bernard Shaw.
50. “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” — Tony Robbins.
51. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” — Winston Churchill.
“52. Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” — Arthur Ashe.
53. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson.
54. “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” — Zig Ziglar.
55. “Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life.” — Naeem Callaway.
56. “Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.” — Richard Branson.
57. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.'” — Mary Anne Radmacher.
58. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” — Theodore Roosevelt.
59. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” — Henry Ford.
60. “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” — Japanese Proverb.
61. “The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.” — Jordan Belfort.
62. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” — Sam Levenson.
63. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” — Confucius.
64. “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
65. “It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.” — Vince Lombardi.
66. “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” — Albert Einstein.
67. “Failure is not the opposite of success; it’s part of success.” — Arianna Huffington.
68. “Sometimes when you’re in a dark place, you think you’ve been buried, but you’ve actually been planted.” — Christine Caine.
69. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” — Steve Jobs
70. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” — Peter Drucker.
71. “Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” — Roy T. Bennett.
72. “You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.” — Michael McMillan.
73. “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill.
74. “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” — Colin R. Davis.
75. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” — William James.
76. “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald.
77. Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.” — Rikki Rogers.
78. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” — John D. Rockefeller.
79. “It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.”-Robert H. Goddard.
80. “The reason many people fail is not for lack of vision but for lack of resolve and resolve is born out of counting the cost.”-Robert H. Goddard.
81. “When you’re surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you’re by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don’t feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you’re really alone.”-Fiona Apple.
82.. “In the process of letting go, you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.”-Deepak Chopra.
83. “The best way to get rid of the pain is to feel the pain, and when you feel the pain and go beyond it, you’ll see there’s a very intense love that is wanting to awaken itself.”-Deepak Chopra.
84. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.”-Nelson Mandela.
85. “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”-Nelson Mandela.
86. “If you believe in yourself enough and know what you want, you’re gonna make it happen.”-Mariah Carey.
87. “There is a light at the end of the tunnel…hopefully it’s not a freight train!”-Mariah Carey.
88. “Don’t count the days; make the days count.”-Muhammad Ali.
89. “I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.”-Muhammad Ali.
90. “Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.”-Marilyn Monroe.
91. “Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”-Marilyn Monroe.
92. “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”-Dolly Parton.
93. “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.”-Dolly Parton.
94.”Learning never exhausts the mind.”-Leonardo da Vinci.
95.”I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.-Leonardo da Vinci.
96.”Tough times never last, but tough people do.”_Robert H. Schuller.
97.”Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.”_Robert H. Schuller.
98.”We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.”-Dr. Henry Link
99. “If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.”-Dr. Henry Link.
100. “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”-Elbert Hubbard.
101. “Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”-Elbert Hubbard.
102. “Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.”-Basil Rathbone.
103.”Reading and listening to music are the two great creative activities I’ve allowed to be my main distractions in life.”-Basil Rathbone.
104. “The most confused we ever get is when we try to convince our heads of something our hearts know is a lie.”-Shannon L. Alder.
105.”Your perspective on life comes from the cage you were held captive in.”-Shannon L. Alder.
106.”All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”_J.R.R. Tolkien.
107. “Not all those who wander are lost.”_J.R.R. Tolkien.
108. “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”-Vincent van Gogh.
109. “What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”-Vincent van Gogh.
110. “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.”-Dalai Lama.
111. “Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”-Dalai Lama.
112. “In the beginner’s mind, there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.”Shunryu Suzuki.
113. “The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.”-Shunryu Suzuki.
114. “The words ‘Thank you’ can be incredibly powerful when spoken or written with heartfelt sincerity.”-Masaru Emoto.
115. “Water has a memory and carries within it our thoughts and prayers. As you pray, it gets conveyed through the water.”-Masaru Emoto.
116. “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”-Blaise Pascal.
117. “Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.”-Blaise Pascal.
118. “You can’t pay enough money to… cure that feeling of being broken and confused.”_Winona Ryder.
119. “You go through spells where you feel that maybe you’re too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.”-Winona Ryder.
120. “Just because someone stumbles and loses their path, doesn’t mean they’re lost forever.”_Charles Xavier.
Final words
Feeling lost or stuck is a universal experience—one that can make us question our path and our purpose.
It’s in these moments of uncertainty that the right words can act as a beacon of light, guiding us through the fog and reminding us of our own inner strength.
The quotes shared in this post aren’t just words; they’re lifelines—offering comfort, perspective, and the gentle nudge we sometimes need to keep moving forward.
When life feels overwhelming, let these quotes remind you that you’re not alone, that every challenge is part of your journey, and that a new beginning is always within reach.
Hold onto these words, let them inspire you, and remember: the best things often come after the hardest trials.
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