111 Life Quotes – Read and Share with Friends

“I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.” ― Marilyn Monroe
“The best portion of a good man’s life is his little nameless, unencumbered acts of kindness and of love.” — Wordsworth
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” — Dalai Lama
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. – Marie Curie
“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” — John Lennon
“You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, Love like you’ll never be hurt, Sing like there’s nobody listening, And live like it’s heaven on earth.” ― William W. Purkey
“Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.” — Lillian Dickson
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. – Henry David Thoreau
The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Get busy living or get busy dying.” — Stephen King
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” ― Mae West
“The healthiest response to life is joy.” — Deepak Chopra
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. – Confucius
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” ― Robert Frost
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”– Thomas A. Edison
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” ― Oscar Wilde
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”– Albert Einstein
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life. – Winston Churchill
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. – Friedrich Nietzsche
“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford
“Security is mostly a superstition. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller
“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.”– Babe Ruth
“Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.” — Marilyn Monroe
“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.” ― Narcotics Anonymous
“Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.” — Will Smith
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. – Leonardo da Vinci
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.” – Steve Jobs
“When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or the life of another.” — Helen Keller
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” ― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living? – Bob Marley
“Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.” — Seneca
“Life is a flower of which love is the honey.” — Victor Hugo
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” ― K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. – Albert Camus
“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“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
“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.”– Henry Ford
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” ― Mark Twain
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. – Mark Twain
“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.” ― Allen Saunders
“In order to write about life first you must live it.”– Ernest Hemingway
“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-Tze
“Imagine your life is perfect in every respect; what would it look like?” – Brian Tracy
“Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.” — Jack Kerouac
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
“We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.” – Henry Link
“The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.”– Frank Sinatra
“This life is what you make it. No matter what, you’re going to mess up sometimes, it’s a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you’re going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends – they’ll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything – they’re your true best friends. Don’t let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they’ll come and go too. And baby, I hate to say it, most of them – actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can’t give up because if you give up, you’ll never find your soulmate. You’ll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don’t, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life’s a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.” ― Marilyn Monroe
“Everything you can imagine is real.” ― Pablo Picasso
“Sing like no one’s listening, love like you’ve never been hurt, dance like nobody’s watching, and live like it’s heaven on earth.” – (Attributed to various sources)
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. – Albert Einstein
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.” ― Seuss
“Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.” – Leo Burnett
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”– Soren Kierkegaard
“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.” ― Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!
“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” – Og Mandino
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. – Lao Tzu
“I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” ― Woody Allen
“The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” ― George Bernard Shaw
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” — Oprah Winfrey
“Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That’s the classic entrepreneur.” – Mohnish Pabrai
“My mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” — Forrest Gump
“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou
“Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.” ― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life. – Oscar Wilde
“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” —Dolly Parton
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” ― Albert Einstein
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. – George Bernard Shaw
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. – Socrates
“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.” ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“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
“Reality continues to ruin my life.” ― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
“Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.” — Ashton Kutcher
“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. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” — Steve Jobs
“Who are you to judge the life I live?
I know I’m not perfect
-and I don’t live to be-
but before you start pointing fingers…
make sure you hands are clean!” ― Bob Marley
“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.” ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Everything in life is luck. – Donald Trump
“Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” – Will Rogers
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.” ― Robert Frost
“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” — Charles Swindoll
“People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” – Rob Siltanen
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. – M. Forster
“Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.” — Kevin Hart
“You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character.” – Unknown
“Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.” — Kobe Bryant
“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi
“I like criticism. It makes you strong.” — LeBron James
“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill
“You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.” ― George Clooney
“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
“If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” – Steve Jobs
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” — Helen Keller
“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.” ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
“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
“Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears. “After all this time?” “Always,” said Snape.” ―K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.” ― Jess C. Scott, The Intern
“Live for each second without hesitation.” — Elton John
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” –Franklin D. Roosevelt
“I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.” ― Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix – Axis: Bold as Love
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein
“Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius
“The way get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
“Keep calm and carry on.” — Winston Churchill
“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.” — Buddha
“The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.” – Hasidic Proverb
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” — Seuss
“Creativity is intelligence having fun.” – Albert Einstein
“Do what you can with all you have, wherever you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt