Famous quotes about life.

Famous quotes about life.

1. Mark Twain: “Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.”
2. Maya Angelou: “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”
3. Albert Einstein: “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
4. Helen Keller: “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
5. Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.”
6. Oscar Wilde: “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
7. Friedrich Nietzsche: “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
8. Eleanor Roosevelt: “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
9. Leo Tolstoy: “All, everything that I understand, I only understand because I love.”
10. Aristotle: “Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
11. Walt Whitman: “Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.”
12. Mother Teresa: “Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.”
13. Henry David Thoreau: “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
14. Khalil Gibran: “Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”
15. Mae West: “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
16. Hermann Hesse: “Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.”
17. John Lennon: “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.”
18. George Bernard Shaw: “Life isn’t about finding yourself. It’s about creating yourself.”
19. William Shakespeare: “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”
20. Lao Tzu: “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.”
21. Henry James: “Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
22. Buddha: “The mind is everything. What you think you become.”
23. Robert Frost: “In three words, I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”
24. Epicurus: “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
25. Sigmund Freud: “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
26. Rumi: “Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
27. Confucius: “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
28. Charles Darwin: “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
29. Anne Frank: “I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.”
30. Helen Keller: “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”
31. John F. Kennedy: “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.”
32. J.K. Rowling: “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
33. Mahatma Gandhi: “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
34. Charles Dickens: “Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
35. Plato: “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
36. Virginia Woolf: “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
37. Fyodor Dostoevsky: “Man is what he believes.”
38. Dr. Seuss: “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”
39. Albert Camus: “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.”
40. Stephen Hawking: “Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet.”

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Short famous quotes about life

41. Vincent Van Gogh: “I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.”
42. Ralph Waldo Emerson: “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
43. Jane Austen: “Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”
44. Marcus Aurelius: “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
45. Frida Kahlo: “I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.”
46. John Wooden: “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
47. Coco Chanel: “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
48. Abraham Lincoln: “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
49. Albert Schweitzer: “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
50. Toni Morrison: “If you wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
51. Marilyn Monroe: “Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.”
52. Søren Kierkegaard: “Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.”
53. George Eliot: “It’s never too late to be what you might have been.”
54. Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
55. Seneca: “True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”
56. Bruce Lee: “Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”
57. Emily Dickinson: “That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”
58. Napoleon Hill: “The starting point of all achievement is desire.”
59. Benjamin Franklin: “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
60. Jim Rohn: “Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.”
61. Heraclitus: “Change is the only constant in life.”
62. Rabindranath Tagore: “I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”
63. Bruce Lee: “Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.”
64. Neil Armstrong: “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”
65. William James: “The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”
66. Carl Jung: “The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”
67. Albert Schweitzer: “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
68. Maya Angelou: “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
69. Confucius: “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
70. Eleanor Roosevelt: “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”