What is the meaning of life? What is life worth? Why do we live? How to live your life? What challenges does life have in store for us? Is life a dream? Should we take life seriously? Can we live happily? These are all questions that people have always tried to answer. The philosophy has often sought to define what life as opposed to death, but also the concept of existence, as opposed to non-being, nothingness.
A book, an extract from a book, even a sentence, can influence our way of thinking, of living… Without radically changing our life, quotes and proverbs can, in any case, make us think about life . Whether they are philosophers, entrepreneurs, artists, writers, leaders, great “sages” or spiritual masters, there are many who have been inspired by “life”, and offer us beautiful quotes on life to inspire us in turn!
Live or survive, a long and happy life, or a difficult life … In any case, life is not a long calm river!Here you will find some of the finest quotes about life.
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The most famous quotes about life
Life is good and too short not to take full advantage of it. Not convinced? Here are the most beautiful and famous quotes about life. Because our life belongs to us, it is up to us to make it more beautiful every day. We give you a little boost with these quotes that will make you love life.
🔔You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi
🔔Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. Henry Ford
🔔A man is but what he knows. Sir Francis Bacon
🔔You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. Wayne Gretzky
🔔If you’re going through hell, keep going. Winston Churchill
🔔Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. Albert Einstein
🔔Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game. Babe Ruth
🔔Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get. Forrest Gump
🔔He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. Benjamin Franklin
🔔That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. Neil Armstrong
🔔That which does not kill us makes us stronger. Friedrich Nietzsche
🔔Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. Eleanor Roosevelt
🔔The opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference. Elie Wiesel
🔔Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do. Voltaire
🔔Fortune favors the bold.” Virgil
🔔Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans. John Lennon
🔔You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. Mae West
🔔Tis better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all. Alrded Lord Tennyson
🔔Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. Mark Twain
🔔Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it. Charles Swindoll
🔔A great man is always willing to be little. Ralph Waldo Emerson
🔔The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. Lao Tzu
🔔Tough times never last but tough people do. Robert H. Schuller
🔔Get busy living or get busy dying. Stephen King
🔔When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Joe Kennedy
🔔Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. Unknown
Powerful and inspirational life quotes
Discover poverful and inspirational life quotes from Alfred Hitchcock, Paulo Coelho, Loïc Peyron, Lao Tseu, Marcel Proust, Christophe Colomb, Joseph Kessel, Montaigne, and even Buddha! To satisfy your desire to read words that make you want to take off, and live your life to the fullest.
📚We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize we only have one. Confucius
📚I’ll be ok. Just not today. Unknown
📚Sometimes the wrong choices bring us to the right places. Unknown
📚Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be. Eckhart Tolle
📚Many people are afraid of the dark, but the real tragedy is those who are afraid of the light. Plato
📚In every life, we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double. Bobby McFerrin
📚Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody. Stephen Chbosky
📚The big lesson in life is never be scared of anyone or anything. Frank Sinatra
📚To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. Oscar Wilde
📚Life is about making an impact, not making an income. Unknown
📚When two people fall in love, past and future disappear. Paulo Coelho
📚Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. Albert Einstein
📚Good is not enough. You’ve got to be great. Simon Cowell
📚In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln
📚If life were predictable, it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. Eleanor Roosevelt
📚You get in life what you have the courage to ask for. Oprah Winfrey
📚Rise above the storm, and you will find the sunshine. Mario Fernandez
📚Watch what you say, and whatever you say, practice it. Soyen Shaku
📚Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. John Wooden
📚Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well. Jack London
📚Every shadow—no matter how deep—is threatened by morning light. Izzi
📚Nothing can dim the light that shines from within. Aaya Angelou
📚The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters. Audrey Hepburn
📚You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. Mae West
The motivational quotes about life
Life is full of ups and downs. But what matters is how we deal with them. That is why we are offering you these quotes about life. They will guide you in the good times as in the difficult times. They consist of short quotes, proverbs, daily quotes, and beautiful thoughts. As you continue reading, you will enter a haven of peace built by words to warm your heart.
📖When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. Helen Keller
📖Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. Charles Swindoll
📖We define ourselves far too often by our past failures. That’s not you. You are this person right now. You’re the person who has learned from those failures. Joe Rogan
📖Life is not fair, get used to it! Bill Gates
📖Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it. Roald Dahl
📖The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. Ralph Waldo Emerson
📖Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory. Dr. Seuss
📖Embrace the glorious mess that you are. Elisabeth Gilbert
📖It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently. Warren Buffet
📖If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one. Dolly Parton
📖There Is No Greater Thing You Can Do With Your Life And Your Work Than Follow Your Passions – In A Way That Serves The World And You. Richard Branson
📖The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller
📖Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘”What are you doing for others?” Martin Luther King, Jr.
📖The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. Oprah Winfrey
📖I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. Michael Jordan
📖It’s not what we have in life but who we have in our life that matters. Margaret Laurence
📖Life is a series of baby steps along the way and if you add up these tiny little steps you take toward your goal, whatever it is, whether it’s giving up something, a terrible addiction or trying to work your way through an illness. Hoda Kotb
📖Without passion, you don’t have energy. Without energy, you have nothing. Warren Buffet
📖Work for that feeling that you have accomplished something…Don’t waste your time on this earth without making a mark. Joe Rogan
📖Live for each second without hesitation. Elton John
📖You don’t need to be better than anyone else, you just need to be better than you used to be. Wayne Dyer
📖Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough. Oprah Winfrey
📖To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone. Reba Mcentire
📖Nothing can dim the light that shines from within. Maya Angelou
📖As soon as something stops being fun, I think it’s time to move on. Life is too short to be unhappy. Waking up stressed and miserable is not a good way to live. Richard Branson
📖Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson
📖Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Dale Carnegie
📖I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. Jimmy Dean
📖If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you. Les Brown
📖Someone else’s success does not equal a failure for you. Joe Rogan
📖The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. Alice Walker
📖Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. John D. Rockefeller
📖When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favour. Elon Musk
📖A real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken a new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided. Tony Robbins
📖Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans. John Lennon
📖Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts. Winston S. Churchill
📖Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. Henry Dadiv Thoreau
📖Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine. Roy T. Bennett
📖The Pessimist Sees Difficulty In Every Opportunity. The Optimist Sees Opportunity In Every Difficulty. Winston S. Churchill
📖You cannot afford to live in potential for the rest of your life; at some point, you have to unleash the potential and make your move. Eric Thomas
📖You have to see failure as the beginning and the middle, but never entertain it as an end. Jessica Herrin
📖Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose. Wayne Dyer
📖By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands – your own. Mark Victor Hansen
📖There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure. Paulo Coelho
📖The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do. Swati Sharma
📖Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. Norman Vincent Peale
📖You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind. Dale Carnegie
📖Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. Goerge Addair
📖Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value. Albert Einstein
📖Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Napoleon Hill
📖Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’! Audrey Hepburn
📖Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Steve Jobs
📖You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. Charles Buxton
📖If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily. Jack Canfield
📖Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. Henry Ford
More quotes about life
🔅Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
🔅A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. Oscar Wilde
🔅I can change the story. I am the story. Jeanette Winterson (from The Powerbook)
🔅There is nothing permanent except change. Herodotus
🔅Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Leonardo da Vinci
🔅Good clothes open all doors. Thomas Fuller
🔅Barn’s burnt down–now I can see the moon. Mizuta Masahide
🔅I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion Jack Kerouac
🔅Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it. Anais Nin
🔅Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘Holy shit…what a ride!’ Hunter S. Thompson
🔅To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying “Amen” to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. Robert Louis Stevenson
🔅Ah come on, these streams of light are not so subtle. All along the ditch, signs of life in sinking puddles! Sarah Harmer
🔅Take one step to the side and it’s all absurd. Leonard Cohen (from Beautiful Losers)
🔅Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. Rumi
🔅Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
🔅No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks. Erica Jong
🔅And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives? Kahlil Gibran
🔅I am but a student… a willing student. Rosemary Altea
🔅Forgiveness is the most important thing. We all have to forgive what was done to us–the Irish people have to forgive. The African people. The Jewish people. We all have to forgive and understand the only way to stop the cycle of hate and abuse is not to allow yourself to get caught in it. Sinead O’Connor
🔅Find God — he isn’t hiding from you, you’re hiding from him. Paramahansa Yogananda
🔅Don’t waste your time on jealousy, sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind. Mary Schmich
🔅Even if you are on the right track, you’ll still get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers
🔅You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building a nest in your hair. Chinese Proverb
🔅I just wish people would realize that anything’s possible if you try; dreams are made possible if you try. Terry Fox
🔅Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness. Allen Ginsberg
