Life Quotes encapsulate wisdom, inspiration, and timeless truths, offering profound insights into the human experience. These succinct expressions distill the complexities of existence into compelling words that resonate universally.
Whether offering motivation, solace, or reflection, life quotes serve as beacons of enlightenment, guiding us through the journey of life with their enduring wisdom and poetic resonance. Explore this collection of succinct phrases that capture the essence of our shared human experience.
1. “If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavour.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
2. “Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.” – Leo Burnett
3. “Live for each second without hesitation.” – Elton John
4. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas A. Edison
5. “You change your life by changing your heart.” – Max Lucado
6. “Live your life in such a way that you can say “I love my life” and really mean it.” – TemitOpe Ibrahim
7. “Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans.” – John Lennon
8. “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” – Mark Twain
9. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese Proverb
10. “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” – Dalai Lama
11. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius
12. “Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
13. “We do not remember days, we remember moments.” – Cesare Pavese
14. “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” – Mark Twain
15. “May you live every day of your life.” – Jonathan Swift
16. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” – Albert Einstein
17. “To change your life, change something you do daily.” – Robert Celner
18. “Life is a flower of which love is the honey.” – Victor Hugo
19. However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.” – Stephen Hawking
20. “Where there is love there is life.” – Mahatma Gandhi
21. “You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.” – Brian Tracy
22. “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” – Jim Rohn
23. “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” – Michael Cunningham
24. “The minute you decide to do what you love to do, you have made a life plan for yourself and a career choice.” – Huda Kattan
25. “Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habit. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.” – Lao–Tze
26. “Love the life you live. Live the life you love.” – Bob Marley
27. “So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune. – Ruth Bader Ginsburg
28. “If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.” – Rick Riordan
29. “As I look back on my life, I realise that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being redirected to something better.” – Dr. Steve Maraboli
30. “Beware the barrenness of a busy life.” – Socrates
31. “My mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” – Forrest Gump
32. “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
33. “Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.” – Gayle Forman
34. “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll
35. “Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.” – Roy T. Bennett
36. “Get busy living or get busy dying.” – Stephen King
37. “It’s time to have and enjoy magical moments in life; reposition yourself so magic happens.” – Kayisha Thomas
38. “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” – Muhammad Ali
39. “When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or the life of another.” – Helen Keller
40. “Gain control of your time, and you will gain control of your life.” – John Landis Mason
41. “My belief in life is that you need only three things to get to the top – Talent, Ambition and Initiative.” – Ankit Patni
42. “Life is short, it is up to you to make it sweet.” – Sarah Louise
43. “In life you make the small decisions with your head and the big decisions with your heart.” – Omid Kordgstani
44. “The healthiest response to life is joy.” – Deepak Chopra
45. “Not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do is the secret of happiness.” – J.M. Barrie
46. “Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.” – Nikki Giovanni
47. “When you make good choices, you create a beautiful life.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
48. “What I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it.” – Hugh Mulligan
49. “Whatever your lot in life, build something on it.” – Home Life
50. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey
51. “Life is a journey, not a destination; and the road to happiness is always under construction.” – Linda Poindexter
52. “Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.” – Vivian Greene
53. “It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” – Paulo Coelho
54. “There is only one certainty in life and that is that nothing is certain.” – G.K. Chesterton
55. “You only have to do a very few things right in your life – so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.” – Warren Buffett
56. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Mae West
57. “Life is a song, sing it.” – Mother Teresa
58. “Life is like a piano, what you get out of it depends on how you play it.” – Unknown
59. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch
60. “The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.” – Henry Ford
61. “In order to write about life first you must live it.” – Ernest Hemingway
62. “Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.” – Ashton Kutcher
63. “Life is not so much what you accomplish as what you overcome.” – Robin Robert
64. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin
65. “Life imposes things on you that you can’t control, but you still have the choice of how you’re going to live through this.” – Celine Dion
66. “Today you have 100% of your life left.” – Tom Landry
67. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
68. “Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.” – George Santayana
69. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.” – Rober Frost
70. “The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” – William James
71. “Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.” – Buddha
72. “Life is about making an impact, not making an income.” – Kevin Kruse
73. “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘what are you doing for others?’ ” – Martin Luther King Jr.
74. “To realise the soothing power of simple life is to find the secret of happiness.” – Mehmet Murat
75. “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.” – Maya Angelou
76. “Life is a challenge, meet it.” – Unknown
77. “Life is not about finding yourself, it’s about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
78. “The purpose of life is to find your gift. The meaning of life is to give it away.” – Pablo Picasso
79. “Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life.” – Jackie Robinson
80. “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” – Oprah Winfrey
81. “Life is a beautiful adventure or it is nothing.” – Helen Keller
82. “Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.” – Marilyn Monroe
83. “If there is at least one person you’ve helped in life, then your life has been worthwhile.” – L. Sydney Abel
84. “Don’t make your life complicated, live simply.” – MJ Jabican
85. “If all you did was look for things to appreciate you would live a joyous, spectacular life.” – Abraham Hicks
86. “There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.” – Thomas Huxley
87. “A simple life gives birth to more clarity, inner peace and meaningful relationships.” – Margo Voder
88. “I just want to live each moment to the fullest. And enjoy life.” – kadeena Cox
89. “The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.” – Frank Sinatra
90. “Life is to be enjoyed, not endured.” – Gordon B.
91. “Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.” – W.E.B Du Bois
92. “The bottom line is to have fun and enjoy life.” – Rekha
93. “It’s really not about what you have. It’s about how you’re able to enjoy life in general.” – Kevin Harvick
94. “The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.” – Dr. Steve Maraboli
95. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
96. “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” – Maya Angelou
97. “You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re–reading the last one.” – Michael McMillian
98. “Life is a journey of self–discovery, and the most important discoveries are the ones we make about ourselves.” – Andrew Matthews
99. “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mahatma Gandhi
100. “I like people that enjoy life, cause I do the same.” – Lil Wayne
101. “Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.” – Louise Hay
102. “Life is like a roller coaster, live it, be happy, enjoy life. – Avril Lavigne
103. “When you know clearly what you want, you’ll wake up every morning excited about life.” – Mark Victor Hansen
104. “Slow down and enjoy life.” – Skip Marley
105. “Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.” – Rabindranath Tagore
106. “It takes half your life before you discover life is a do–it–yourself project.” – Napoleon Hill
107. “Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.” – Sholom Aleichem
108. “Life is good when we think it’s good. Life is bad when we don’t think.’ – Douglas Horton
109. “I feel that the simplicity of life is just being yourself.” – Bobby Brown
110. “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill
111. “Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.” – Tony Robbins
112. “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and let it come in.” – Morrie Schwartz
113. “Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever.” – Peter Hagerty
114. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be faced.” – Soren Kierkegaard
115. “Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.” – Henry Ford
116. “Life is too short for long–term grudges.” – Elon Musk
117. “The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates
118. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” – Soren Kierkegaard
119. “Don’t take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.” – Colleen Hoover
120. “Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.” – C.S. Lewis
121. “Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.” – Edwin Way Teale
122. “Life is a sum of all your choices.” – Albert Camus
123. “The most important thing in life is to stop saying ‘I wish’ and start saying ‘I will’.” – David J. Schwartz
124. “Life is a long journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever.” – Peter Hagerty
125. “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow.” – Lao Tzu
126. “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
127. “Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.” – Margaret Mitchell
128. “If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.” – Morris West
129. “The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
130. “The greatest legacy is not what we leave, but what we live.” – Tony Robbins
131. “Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.” – John F. Kennedy
132. “Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius
133. “Life is a tragedy when seen in close–up, but a comedy in long–shot.” – Charlie Chaplin
134. “Happiness is the good life that is marked by flourishing well–being, joy, prosperity, peace, satisfaction, and pleasure.” – Ogwo David Emenike
135. “You can really enjoy life when you’re extremely busy.” – Josephine De La Baume
136. “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
137. “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” – Oprah Winfrey
138. “You are the master of your destiny; don’t let anyone else build your life for you.” – Joyce Meyer
139. “Life is a tapestry of experiences, and each experience is a thread that weaves our story.” – Shannon L. Alder
140. “Life is a canvas of endless possibilities.” – Bryan McGill
141. “Life is a gift, wrap it up and give it to someone special.” – Skip Williams
142. “Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.” – Grace Hansen
143. “Create a life that you genuinely love with your whole heart and start with yourself.” – Brittany Burgunde
144. “Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.” – Carol Burnett
145. “If you are truly in love with this world and your life, then you will lose the sense of angst.” – Debasish Mridha
146. “Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.” – Boris Pasternak
147. “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love and to let it come in.” Morrie Schwartz
148. “After all, life is too short to be anything but happy.” – Karl Marx
149. “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.” – Steve Jobs
150. “The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.” – William Hazlitt
151. “Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.” Stephen Chnosky
152. “To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.” – Mark Twain
153. “Life is not about being rich, it’s about being happy.” – Richard Branson
154. “Life is never easy, but it’s worth it.” – Unknown
155. “Life is a story, write it with purpose.” – Tony Robbins
156. “Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” – Unknown
157. “Life is a gift that must be given back.” – Unknown
158. “Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.” – John Paul II
159. “The purpose of life is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
160. “Life is 90% how you react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll
161. “The best way to live is to love, to laugh, and to learn.” – Virgil
162. “Life is a balance of holding on and letting go.” – Elisabeth Kübler–Ross
163. “Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
164. “Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through.” – Anais Nin
165. “Life is a series of collisions with the future.” – José Ortega y Gasset
166. “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well.” – Jack London
167. “Life’s meaning is not found in duration, but in donation.” – Rick Warren
168. “Life is a journey of a thousand moments, each one a gift.” – Greg Anderson
169. “The best way to live is to live with intention.” – Tony Robbins
170. “Life is a journey, travel it with love.” – Greg Anderson
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