The Best Life Quotes
Thinking about life lately? These great life quotes show everyone does from time to time.
Life is all around us and life itself has always been an important topic to humanity.
We’ve all heard sayings like “life’s not fair” and “that’s life,” but living and being alive are more special than that.
From philosophers and poets to musicians and religious leaders, life is a fascinating thing.
Challenges in life present us with questions, and blessings give us times to reflect. So whichever you’re feeling now, enjoy these life quotes and sayings and live your best life today.
The greatest pleasure of life is love. Euripides
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. Neale Donald Walsch
Life is trying things to see if they work. Ray Bradbury
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. Havelock Ellis
True life is lived when tiny changes occur. Leo Tolstoy
Life is a flower of which love is the honey. Victor Hugo
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. Arthur Rubinstein
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.John W. Gardner
The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference. Elie Wiesel
Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed. Corita Kent
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. John Lennon
What is important in life is life, and not the result of life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. George Bernard Shaw
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. Oscar Wilde
Life is a long lesson in humility.James M. Barrie
Every man dies. Not every man really lives. William Wallace
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. Eleanor Roosevelt
It is not length of life, but depth of life. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. Confucius
A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning. Lilian Gish
Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it. Ernest Holmes
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. Robert Louis Stevenson
Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it. Samuel Smiles
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. Albert Einstein
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. Oscar Wilde
Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it. Irving Berlin
Life is a lively process of becoming. Gen. Douglas MacArthur
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. Socrates
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. Albert Einstein
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Søren Kierkegaard
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. Samuel Butler
Life is not an exact science, it is an art. Samuel Butler
The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates
Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. Hans Christian Andersen
Live for each second without hesitation. Elton John
Life is about making an impact, not making an income. Kevin Kruse
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. Alfred Adler
Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny. Stephen Hawking
Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia. Alexis Carrel
Life is largely a matter of expectation. Horace
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. Joseph Campbell
Growth is the only evidence of life. John Henry Newman
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. Havelock Ellis
Life has no limitations, except the ones you make. Les Brown
Life is never easy for those who dream. Robert Waller
You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind. Joyce Meyer
It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life. Elizabeth Kenny
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. George Bernard Shaw
The true currency of life is time, not money, and we’ve all got a limited stock of that. Robert Harris
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it. Henry Ford
Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life. John Wooden
The true currency of life is time, not money, and we’ve all got a limited stock of that. Robert Harris
Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people. Leo Burnett
Life must be lived as play. Plato
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is made of ever so many partings welded together. Charles Dickens
A life lived in fear is a life half lived. Baz Luhrmann
In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed. Sid Caesar
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. George Bernard Shaw
Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be. Eckhart Tolle
Life has no limitations, except the ones you make. Les Brown
I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life. Corazon Aquino
Life’s for the living, so live it – or you’re better off dead. Passenger
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Steve Jobs
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. Mark Twain
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. Walter Bagehot
Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. Grandma Moses
Good health and good sense are two of life’s greatest blessings. Publilius Syrus
While there’s life, there’s hope. Marcus Tullius Cicero
The trick in life is learning how to deal with it. Helen Mirren
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. Henry David Thoreau
I am all for the short and merry life. Edward Fitzgerald
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. Les Brown
Love the life you live. Live the life you love. Bob Marley
Life’s too mysterious to take too serious. Mary Engelbreit
There is just one life for each of us: our own. Euripides
The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination. Carl Rogers
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day. Ralph Waldo Emerson
We design our lives through the power of choices. Richard Bach
Make each day your masterpiece. John Wooden
The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters. Audrey Hepburn
Life is a game and true love is a trophy. Rufus Wainwright
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes. Frank Lloyd Wright
The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it. Arthur Schopenhauer
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. Soren Kierkegaard
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. Helen Keller
If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of. Bruce Lee
Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments. Rose Kennedy
May you live all the days of your life. Jonathan Swift
Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes. Hugh Prathner
In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. William James
People living deeply have no fear of death. Anais Nin
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. Robert Frost
We can’t plan life. All we can do is be available for it. Lauryn Hill
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations. Oliver Goldsmith
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Mahatma Gandhi
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing. Seneca
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Søren Kierkegaard
Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. Lillian Dickson
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. Voltaire
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
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. D.H. Lawrence
Life’s for the living, so live it, or you’re better off dead. Passenger
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. Bertrand Russell
You only pass through this life once, you don’t come back for an encore. Elvis Presley
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. Sholom Aleichem
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Steve Jobs
Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it. Irving Berlin
Life is too important to be taken seriously. Oscar Wilde Quote
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. Mae West
Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. Benjamin Franklin
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ‘Wow! What a Ride!’. Hunter S. Thompson
Advice Quotes about life
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. Jackie Robinson
The meaning of life is to give life meaning. Ken Hudgins
Do all the good you can, for all the people you can, in all the ways you can, as long as you can. Hillary Clinton
If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself. Rick Riordan
In every life, we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double. Bobby McFerrin
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it. Samuel Butler
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. Anais Nin
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. William James
People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive. Joseph Campbell
Life does not owe you anything because life has already given you everything. Ralph Marston
If you don’t run your own life, somebody else will. John Atkinson
Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something. Ashton Kutcher
Life should be great rather than long. B.R. Ambedkar
Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet. Sarah Louise Delany
Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance. Charles Lindbergh
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. Marcus Aurelius
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one. Elbert Hubbard
Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Mahatma Ganndhi
The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive. Indira Gandhi
Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again. Stephen King
The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up. John C. Maxwell
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
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made. Groucho Marx
Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act. Paolo Coelho
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well. Jack London
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. Mark Twain
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them. Charlie Sheen, Wall Street
Life is a question and how we live it is our answer. Gary Keller
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. Benjamin Franklin
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life. James Allen
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. Albert Einstein
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. William James
Begin at once to live and count each day as a separate life. Seneca
Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down. Vannessa Paradis
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’. Erma Bombeck
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. E.M. Forster
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it. Danny Kaye
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life. William Osler
Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get. Forrest Gump
Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always. Rainer Maria Rilke
The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself. Thales
The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it. Carl Jung
When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.Willie Nelson
Life is a series of commas, not periods. Matthew McConaughey
Life is a lot like jazz… it’s best when you improvise. Geroge Gershwin
Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best. H. Jackson Brown Jr.
There is no wealth but life. John Ruskin
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes. Lewis Grizzard
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. Oprah Winfrey
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine. Morris West
The purpose of our lives is to be happy. Dalai Lama
Life is about how much you can take and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward. Anderson Silva
The healthiest response to life is joy. Deepak Chopra
Life is not a dress rehearsal. Rose Tremain
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. Nelson Henderson
The key to life is accepting challenges. Bette Davis
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. Albert Schweitzer
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. Horace Walpole
Three things in life – your health, your mission, and the people you love. Naval Ravikant
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose. Tennessee Williams
The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life is a school of probability. Walter Bagehot
There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles. Stephen Covey
In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln
Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. Lao Tzu
Life is like riding a bicycle: you don’t fall off unless you stop pedaling. Claude Pepper
Life is half spent before we know what it is. George Herbert
Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last. Marcus Aurelius
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one’s will. Paul Gauguin
Life is pain. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something. William Goldman
You get in life what you have the courage to ask for. Oprah Winfrey
I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine. Neil Armstronng
Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain. Vivian Greene
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn. David Russell
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify. Henry David Thoreau
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it. Charles Swindoll
What you put into life is what you get out of it. Clint Eastwood
Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don’t get so worked up about things. Kenneth Branagh
Keep looking up… that’s the secret of life. Charlie Brown
