Life Quotes 

Life Quotes

1. “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” — Dalai Lama

2. “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” — John Lennon

3. “Get busy living or get busy dying.” — Stephen King

4. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West

5. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”– Thomas A. Edison


6. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”– Albert Einstein

7. “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.”– Babe Ruth

8. “Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.” — Will Smith

9. “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


10. “Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.” — Seneca

11. “If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” – Eleanor Roosevelt


12. “The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.”– Henry Ford

13. “In order to write about life first you must live it.”– Ernest Hemingway

14. “The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.”– Frank Sinatra


15. “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)

16. “Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.” – Leo Burnett

17. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”– Soren Kierkegaard

18. “The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates

19. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” — Oprah Winfrey



20. “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” —Dolly Parton

21. “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 (inspired by John Wesley quote)

22. “Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.” — Ashton Kutcher

23. “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

24. “Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.” — Kobe Bryant


25. “I like criticism. It makes you strong.” — LeBron James

26. “You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.” ― George Clooney

27. “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

28. “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 (JFK Quotes)

29. “Live for each second without hesitation.” — Elton John

30. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein

31. “Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.” — Confucius

32. “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” — Helen Keller

33. “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

34. “My mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” — Forrest Gump (Forrest Gump Quotes)


35. “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

36. “When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or the life of another.” — Helen Keller

37. “The healthiest response to life is joy.” — Deepak Chopra

38. “Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.” — Lillian Dickson

39. “The best portion of a good man’s life is his little nameless, unencumbered acts of kindness and of love.” — Wordsworth

40. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.” ― Robert Frost

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41. “Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” — Charles Swindoll


42. “Keep calm and carry on.” — Winston Churchill

43. “Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.” — Jack Kerouac

44. “Life is a flower of which love is the honey.” — Victor Hugo