Quotes on Life

by | Sep 11, 2024 | Life Quotes, Topics | 55 comments

Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.

– John Lennon






In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take.

– Lewis Carroll






Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

– Buddha






The purpose of life is to be happy.

– Dalai Lama






Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

– Confucius






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

– Steve Jobs






Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

– George Bernard Shaw






Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

– Mark Twain






Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.

– Charles R. Swindoll






The unexamined life is not worth living.

– Socrates






Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson






The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

– Oprah Winfrey






Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

– Helen Keller






Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

– Maya Angelou






It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

– Confucius






To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

– Oscar Wilde






You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

– Mae West






Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.

– Sarah Louise Delany






Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain.

– Vivian Greene






Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

– Joshua J. Marine






Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

– Oliver Goldsmith






The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

– Robert Byrne






Life is about making an impact, not making an income.

– Kevin Kruse






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

– Mahatma Gandhi






Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.

– Albert Schweitzer






Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson






Life isn’t about having, it’s about being.

– Rick Warren






Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

– Søren Kierkegaard






Don’t go through life, grow through life.

– Eric Butterworth






Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

– Charles Dickens






Our life is what our thoughts make it.

– Marcus Aurelius






Life is a daring adventure, or it is nothing.

– Helen Keller






Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

– Benjamin Franklin






The best way to predict the future is to create it.

– Peter Drucker






Life is too important to be taken seriously.

– Oscar Wilde






Where there is love, there is life.

– Mahatma Gandhi






Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

– Hans Christian Andersen






The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

– Bertrand Russell






Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

– Søren Kierkegaard






The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.

– William Hazlitt






Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

– Albert Einstein






Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.

– Vivian Komori






Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow.

– Lao Tzu






The good life is built with good relationships.

– Robert Waldinger






The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

– Walter Bagehot






The best things in life are free. The second best are very expensive.

– Coco Chanel






Life isn’t perfect, but your outfit can be.

– Unknown






The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

– Nelson Mandela






The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is to give it away.

– Pablo Picasso






In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

– Robert Frost






Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.

– Lillian Dickson






Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

– Grandma Moses






Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

– Elbert Hubbard






Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’

– Martin Luther King Jr.






The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.

– Charles R. Swindoll






To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone.

– Reba McEntire






The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

– Dolly Parton






Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

– Theodore Roosevelt






Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

– William James






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 experience.

– Eleanor Roosevelt






Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

– Charles R. Swindoll






Life is short, and it’s up to you to make it sweet.

– Sadie Delany






Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.

– Mother Teresa






Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

– Elbert Hubbard






Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson






Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

– Confucius






Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

– John Lennon






A life without cause is a life without effect.

– Barbarella






Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

– Benjamin Franklin






All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson






Life is short, and truth works far and lives long: let us then speak the truth.

– Arthur Schopenhauer






I think being in love with life is a key to eternal youth.

– Doug Hutchison






Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.

– Orhan Pamuk






Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

– Khalil Gibran






May you live all the days of your life.

– Jonathan Swift






Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.

– Theodore Roosevelt






I love those who can smile in trouble.

– Leonardo da Vinci






In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.

– Abraham Lincoln






Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.

– Dr. Seuss






Life is too short to be little.

– Benjamin Disraeli






Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don’t get so worked up about things.

– Kenneth Branagh






Life is like a camera. Focus on what’s important, capture the good times, and if things don’t work out, take another shot.

– Unknown






Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

– Victor Hugo






The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

– Oprah Winfrey






Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson






The longer I live, the more I realize that life is not about the things we have but the experiences we create.

– Unknown






Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

– Tony Robbins






Life is like a rollercoaster. It has its ups and downs. But it’s your choice to scream or enjoy the ride.

– Unknown






Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you.

– Roy T. Bennett






The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose.

– Richard Leider






Life is too short to be unhappy for long.

– Ritu Ghatourey






Life always offers you a second chance. It’s called tomorrow.

– Dylan Thomas






Life is like a cup of coffee or tea. No matter how bitter it may be, it is always enjoyable.

– Unknown






The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

– Oprah Winfrey






Life is short, and we never have too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.

– Henri-Frederic Amiel






Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass but about learning to dance in the rain.

– Vivian Greene






Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

– Anaïs Nin






Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.

– Ernest Holmes






The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

– Bertrand Russell






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