Life Quotes

The purpose of our lives is to be happy. (Dalai Lama - Tibetan Buddhist spiritual teacher)
Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans. (John Lennon - Musician)
Get busy living or get busy dying. (Stephen King - American author)
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. (Mae West - American actress and sex symbol)
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. (Thomas A. Edison - American inventor and businessman)
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. (Albert Einstein - Theoretical physicist)

Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game. (Babe Ruth - American baseball player)
Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there. (Will Smith - Actor)
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 - American business magnate, industrial designer, media proprietor, and investor)
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing. (Seneca - Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist)
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. (Eleanor Roosevelt - American politician, diplomat, activist; First Lady of the United States)

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it. (Henry Ford - American industrialist and business magnae)
In order to write about life first you must live it. (Ernest Hemingway - American author and journalist)
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. (Soren Kierkegaard - Danish philosopher and theologian, precursor of Existentialism)
The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything. (Frank Sinatra - American singer and actor)
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. (Mark Twain - American author and humorist)

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people. (Leo Burnett - American advertising executive)
The unexamined life is not worth living. (Socrates - Ancient Greek philosopher)
Turn your wounds into wisdom. (Oprah Winfrey - American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist)
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. (Dolly Parton - American singer-songwriter and actress)
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 - American politician)
Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something. (Ashton Kutcher - American actor)

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 - American comedian and actor)
Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise. (Kobe Bryant - American Basketball Player)
I like criticism. It makes you strong. (LeBron James - American Basketball Player)
You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak. (George Clooney - American actor, filmmaker, and activist)
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 - Canadian singer)
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 - 35th president of the United States)
Live for each second without hesitation. (Elton John - English singer and pianist)

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. (Albert Einstein - Theoretical physicist)
Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated. (Confucius - Chinese teacher, editor, politician and philosopher)
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. (Helen Keller - U.S. author and political activist)
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 - American business magnate, industrial designer, media proprietor, and investor)
My mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get. (Forrest Gump - Movie)

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. (Laozi- Semi-legendary Chinese figure)
When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or the life of another. (Helen Keller - U.S. author and political activist)
The healthiest response to life is joy. (Deepak Chopra - Indian-born American author and alternative-medicine advocate, physician and public speaker)
Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. (Lillian Dickson - Independent missionary, author, and public speaker)
The best portion of a good man’s life is his little nameless, unencumbered acts of kindness and of love. (William Wordsworth - English Romantic poet)
In three words, I can sum up everything, I’ve learned about life: It goes on. (Robert Frost - American poet)
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it. (Charles Swindoll - Book Writer)
Keep calm and carry on. (Winston Churchill - British statesman, army officer, and writer)
Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars. (Jack Kerouac - American writer)
Life is a flower of which love is the honey. (Victor Hugo - French poet, novelist, and dramatist)
Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about. (Marilyn Monroe - American actress, model, and singer)
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. (Buddha - spiritual teacher)
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. (Dr. Seuss - American children's writer and illustrator)
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. (Mark Twain - American author and humorist)
Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny. (Stephen Hawking - British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author)
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. (Ralph Waldo Emerson - American philosopher, essayist, and poet)
The greatest pleasure of life is love. (Euripides - Ancient Athenian playwright)
Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. (Grandma Moses - American artist)
Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. (Benjamin Franklin - American polymath)
Life is about making an impact, not making an income. (Kevin Kruse - American historian)
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. (Michael Jordan - American basketball player and businessman)
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. (Babe Ruth - American baseball player)
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. (Mark Twain - American author and humorist)
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. (Anais Nin - Writer of novels, short stories, and erotica)
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. (John Lennon - English singer and songwriter, founding member of The Beatles)
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. (Les Brown - American motivational speaker and former politician)

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