Life Quotes

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
– Jean-Paul Sartre
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
– Albert Schweitzer
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
– Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
– Socrates
What we play is life.
– Louis Armstrong
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
– Benjamin Franklin
Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
– Horace
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
– William James
I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.
– Angelina Jolie
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
– Carl Gustav Jung
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
– Plato
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
– Will Rogers
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
– Dr. Seuss
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
– George Bernard Shaw
May you live all the days of your life.
– Jonathan Swift
While there's life, there's hope.
– Terence
If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.
– Eminem
Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.
– Joseph Campbell
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
– Khalil Gibran
You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't.
– Caleb Carr
You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
– Wayne Dyer
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
– Paulo Coelho
You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There's nobility in that. There's focus. It's genuine. It's crystal and it's pure and it's available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it.
– Charlie Sheen
You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.
– Evel Knievel
You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.
– Deepak Chopra
You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.
– Drew Barrymore
You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
– Theodor Adorno
Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.
– Charles R. Swindoll
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.
– Gilda Radner
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.
– George Carlin
When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.
– Audrey Hepburn
When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
– Zig Ziglar
When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.
– Les Brown
When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
– Wayne Dyer
Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.
– John Wooden
What they're not ready for is guys like you and I and Nails and all the other gnarly gnarlingtons in my life, that we are high priests, Vatican assassin warlocks. Boom. Print that, people. See where that goes.
– Charlie Sheen
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
– Mark Twain
We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!
– Gary Ryan Blair
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
– Joseph Campbell
We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
– Ronald Reagan
We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.
– Steve Jobs
We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.
– Lauryn Hill
We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.
– Marianne Williamson
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
– Sir William Osler
Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
– William Cowper
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
– Socrates
Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.
– Tom Brady
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
– John Wayne
Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
– Dale Carnegie
To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving.
– Jerry Seinfeld
To know nothing is the happiest life.
– Desiderius Erasmus
To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
– Flannery O'Connor
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
– Khalil Gibran
Thug Life to me is dead.
– Tupac Shakur
This is the strangest life I've ever known.
– Jim Morrison
These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.
– Steve Jobs
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
– Christopher Morley
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
– Nelson Mandela
There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.
– Marcus Garvey
There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.
– John F. Kennedy
There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.
– Henry David Thoreau
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
– Albert Schweitzer
There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life their Christianity, for instance.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.
– Henry David Thoreau
There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
– Horace Walpole
The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.
– Eminem
The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.
– Oprah Winfrey
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
The quality of life is more important than life itself.
– Alexis Carrel
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
– Albert Schweitzer
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
– Joseph Campbell
The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.
– Audrey Hepburn
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
– Jean Paul
The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.
– Michael Jackson
The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.
– Chanakya
The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.
– Julius Erving
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
– Henry Ford
The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
– Soren Kierkegaard
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
– Joseph Campbell
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
– Aristotle
Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
– Bill Gates
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
– Booker T. Washington
Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.
– Nelson Mandela
Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don't turn out the way you're given the impression that they will. And I think that's all kind of a con. But I think we've probably all been hurt.
– Sigourney Weaver
Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.
– Marilyn Monroe
So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.
– Will Smith
Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?
– Marilyn Monroe
Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.
– Carl Lewis
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
– Soren Kierkegaard
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
– Joseph Campbell
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
– Bob Marley
One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
– Oscar Wilde