Life Quotes

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.
– William Feather
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
– Lewis Carroll
One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
– Joan of Arc
Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy they heed not our expectancy But round some corner of the streets of life they of a sudden greet us with a smile.
– Gerald Massey
Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.
– W. C. Fields
Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.
– Paul Wellstone
Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.
– George Santayana
Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
– Henry David Thoreau
My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.
– Hugh Leonard
My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring.
– Prince William
My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.
– Jim Carrey
My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.
– Steve Jobs
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
– Berthold Auerbach
Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
– George Bernard Shaw
Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.
– Ani Difranco
Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.
– Groucho Marx
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
– Pablo Picasso
Live the life you've dreamed.
– Henry David Thoreau
Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
– Zig Ziglar
Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.
– Jim Henson
Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.
– Paulo Coelho
Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
– Samuel Smiles
Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
– Carl Friedrich Gauss
Life must be lived as play.
– Plato
Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.
– Jim Carrey
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
– Rebecca West
Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.
– Eric Davis
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.
– Kevyn Aucoin
Life is too short to work so hard.
– Vivien Leigh
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
– Soren Kierkegaard
Life is not fair get used to it.
– Bill Gates
Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.
– Virginia Satir
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
– O. Henry
Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.
– Abraham Cahan
Life is lived on the edge.
– Will Smith
Life is hard it's harder if you're stupid.
– John Wayne
Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.
– William Christopher Handy
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
– Oscar Wilde
Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.
– George Gershwin
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
– Charles R. Swindoll
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
– Soren Kierkegaard
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
– Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Life has a higher end, than to be amused.
– William Ellery Channing
Life every man holds dear but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
– William Shakespeare
Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
– George Eliot
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
– Neale Donald Walsch
Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.
– Charlie Sheen
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
– Isaac Bashevis Singer
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave.
– Tupac Shakur
It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
– Napoleon Hill
It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
– Joseph Campbell
It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
– Plato
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'
– Aldous Huxley
In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball.
– Michael Jordan
If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
– Bruce Lee
If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.
– William J. Clinton
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
– Marcus Garvey
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
– Emile Zola
If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.
– Marilyn Monroe
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it.
– Judy Garland
I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
– Eleanor Roosevelt
I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.
– Frank Sinatra
I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.
– John Lennon
I'm not an example for how people should live their lives. Never in my life would I ever set out to be an example for people on how to live their lives. If you need an example for how to live, then you just shouldn't have been born. Straight up.
– Lil Wayne
I'm back to doing everything I used to, loving life as ever.
– Donna Mills
I'd like to be settled into somewhat of a normal life. Somewhat. I know it's never going to be completely normal.
– Michael Jordan
I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids.
– Bo Jackson
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
– Theodore Roosevelt
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
I want to wake up every day and do whatever comes in my mind, and not feel pressure or obligations to do anything else in my life.
– Michael Jordan
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
– George Bernard Shaw
I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.
– Charles M. Schulz
I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.
– Laurence Sterne
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
– Abraham Lincoln
I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.
– Oprah Winfrey
I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.
– Dean Koontz
I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.
– Muhammad Ali
I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.
– Nelson Mandela
I love those who yearn for the impossible.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I love life because what more is there?
– Anthony Hopkins
I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up.
– Shania Twain
I like people that enjoy life, 'cause I do the same.
– Lil Wayne
I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you're emotions going.
– Jim Valvano
I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.
– Tupac Shakur
I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
– Igor Stravinsky
I haven't lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that's from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them.
– Kevin Costner
I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
I have so much chaos in my life, it's become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they're wrong.
– Tom Welling
I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live.
– Judy Collins
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
– Arthur Rubinstein
I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.
– Oprah Winfrey
I had no blood relatives till I made some.
– Andy Dick
I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.
– Marilyn Monroe
I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.
– Michael Landon
I do not regret one moment of my life.
– Lillie Langtry