In this post, you will find great Life Quotes from famous people, such as Stevie Wonder, Albert Einstein, Frank Lloyd Wright, Tom Hodgkinson, Marcus Tullius Cicero. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
Time is long but life is short.
I do have a childlike enthusiasm at times. I certainly enjoy life and get pleasure sometimes in childish things.
To be free is to have achieved your life.
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.
There are no regrets in life, just lessons.
To live is to think.
Everything in life is luck.
Our life is the sum total of all the decisions we make every day, and those decisions are determined by our priorities.
I’m the one that has to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.
Life is a long lesson in humility.
It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
Each one of us decides to incarnate upon this planet at a particular point in time and space. We have chosen to come here to learn a particular lesson that will advance us upon our spiritual, evolutionary pathway.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori rising. Try, trust, try, and trust again, and eventually you’ll feel your mind change its focus to a new level of understanding.
Take a step back, evaluate what is important, and enjoy life.
I like people that enjoy life, ’cause I do the same.
The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
While there’s life, there’s hope.
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.
Your journey never ends. Life has a way of changing things in incredible ways.
You will always have ups and downs in your life and your career, but just stay positive and go for it.
I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are.
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Thank you for life, and all the little ups and downs that make it worth living.
The only real things in life is the unexpected things. Everything else is just an illusion.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
You aren’t your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family… your anything. You’re a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.
Only the disciplined ones in life are free. If you are undisciplined, you are a slave to your moods and your passions.
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.
The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.
Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you’ll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you’ll find that you have more of it.
Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.
In life, you have got to make the best of every situation; you have to keep going.
We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
There may be aliens in our Milky Way galaxy, and there are billions of other galaxies. The probability is almost certain that there is life somewhere in space.
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.
Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.
Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow.
A good life depends on the strength of our relationships with family, friends, neighbours, colleagues and strangers.
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
Empathy begins with understanding life from another person’s perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It’s all through our own individual prisms.
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.
The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
Today’s a beautiful day, and yesterday was a beautiful day, so that means it’s a great life.
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
Life’s more amusing than we thought.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
I have said that propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation have always been part of political warfare. Social media and other new platforms have given it a new life and reach through which the fake news phenomenon can reach everywhere.
I do not regret one moment of my life.
It’s unbelievable how much you don’t know about the game you’ve been playing all your life.
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.
Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.
Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.
Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.
I bear a charmed life.
Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
Do what you need to do and enjoy life as it happens.
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Life is short, and every moment is precious.
At its best, life is completely unpredictable.
Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
If you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life – and only then will I be free to become myself.
The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.
We should learn not to hold grudges and be positive all the time because life is too short and unpredictable.
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Life well spent is long.
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.
Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life.
A baby is God’s opinion that life should go on.
To know nothing is the happiest life.
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
What we play is life.
Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that.
Life is hard enough. Life is always going to be hard, so you need to push for what you want.
There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation – veneer isn’t worth anything.
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth!
Life is a series of commas, not periods.
Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.
I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.
In everyone‘s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
The way to know life is to love many things.
Money can’t buy life.
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.
Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Football is like life – it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.
I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.
Live the life you’ve dreamed.
Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.
Whatever you do, do with determination. You have one life to live; do your work with passion and give your best. Whether you want to be a chef, doctor, actor, or a mother, be passionate to get the best result.
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Life is too short for long-term grudges.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
I don’t think about art when I’m working. I try to think about life.
When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
With renunciation life begins.
Life is a DNA software system.
Music is the soundtrack of your life.
I am blessed with a funny gene that makes me enjoy life.
Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.
I am an artist… I am here to live out loud.
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
Everything in life… has to have balance.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.
Simply enjoy life and the great pleasures that come with it.
High school is what kind of grows you into the person you are. I have great memories, good and bad, some learning experiences and some that I’ll take with me the rest of my life.
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. There’s a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy.
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
Don’t Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
Good health and good sense are two of life’s greatest blessings.
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
A healthy social life is found only when, in the mirror of each soul, the whole community finds its reflection, and when, in the whole community, the virtue of each one is living.
Live, so you do not have to look back and say: ‘God, how I have wasted my life.’
Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.
There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Life begins on the other side of despair.
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
At the end of the day, life is too short to worry.
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Love is energy of life.
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls.
So if you stay ready, you ain’t gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.
The difficulty in life is the choice.
I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education – that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society.
You got one life to live. So I’m living it the way I want to live it.
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
I try to work and enjoy life, and that’s about all.
You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
My life is my message.
You never know where life is going to take you. So everything I do, I just take it one day at a time, and it always leads you to the right place.
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain.
I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.
I work a lot in the slums of Tondo, Manila, and the life there is poor and very sad. And I’ve always taught to myself to look for the beauty of it and look in the beauty of the faces of the children and to be grateful.
I am overwhelmed with gratitude, and my heart is full. ‘American Sniper’ has broken records, which follows such an honest path of Chris‘s life.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
You change your life by changing your heart.
Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.
The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.
Never give up. There are always tough times, regardless of what you do in anything in life. Be able to push through those times and maintain your ultimate goal.
