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150+ Life Quotes – Short Motivational Quotes about Life
“Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you’ll start to see a big difference in your life.” ― Yoko Ono
“Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.” — Carol Burnett
“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” — Joshua J. Marine
“My life is my message.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“Life is made of ever so many partings welding together.” — Charles Dickens
“Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.” ― Joel Osteen
“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.” — George Sand
“Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.” — Sarah Louise Delany
“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” — Lou Holtz
“In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life. It goes on.” — Robert Frost
“It’s better to dance than to march through life.” — Yoko Ono
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined.” — Henry David Thoreau
“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.” — Henry Miller
“Life is too important to be taken seriously.” — Oscar Wilde
“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” ― Confucius
“Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.” — Samuel Butler
“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” — Paulo Coelho
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” — Mark Twain
“Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.” — Tennessee Williams
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” — Soren Kierkegaard
“The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.” — Arthur Schopenhauer
“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.” — Les Brown
“Try to enjoy the great festival of life with other men!” — Epictetus
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” ― George Bernard Shaw
“I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” — Michael Jordan
“There are two great days in a person’s life – the day we are born and the day we discover why.” — William Barclay
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” — Albert Einstein
“Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.” ― Oliver Goldsmith
“Life isn’t finding shelter in the storm. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.” ― Sherrilyn Kenyon
“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.” — Maya Angelou
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” ― Robert Frost
“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” ― William James
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” ― Oscar Wilde
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” — Harvey Fierstein
“The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.” — Alfred Adler
“A fear-oriented man is always calculating, planning, arranging, safeguarding. His whole life is lost in this way.” — Osho
“Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.” ― Benjamin Franklin
“If there’s a single lesson that life teaches us, it’s that wishing doesn’t make it so.” — lev Grossman
“Life has many ways of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.” ― Paulo Coelho
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” ― Norman Cousins
“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.” ― William James
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” — Soren Kiekegaard
“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” — Omar Khayyam
“Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” — T.S. Eliot
“The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” — Anais Nin
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” ― Soren Kierkegaard
“Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.” — Margaret Mitchell
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” — Steve Jobs
“Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” ― Albert Einstein
“Life’s too mysterious to take too serious.” — Mary Engelbreit
“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” ― Charles R. Swindoll
“Love the life you live. Live the life you love.” — Bob Marley
“When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.” — Cathy Guisewite
“Life isn’t about getting and having; it’s about giving and being.” — Kevin Kruse
“Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.” — Jonathan Swift
“If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.” ― Leo Tolstoy
“It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.” — Mae Jemison
“The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.” — Helen Mirren
“The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.” — Frank Sinatra
“Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.” — Emily Dickinson
“Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.” — Denis Waitley
“Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.” — Paulo Coelho
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” — John Hughes
“It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.” — Elizabeth Kenny
“Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” — Norma Cousins
“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.” — Plato
“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.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” — John Lennon
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” — Helen Keller
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” — Confucius
“I think being in love with life is a key to eternal youth.” — Doug Hutchison
“The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.” — Indira Gandhi
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” — George Bernard Shaw
“The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.” — David Russell
“Where there is love there is life.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“Life is a question and how we live it is our answer.” — Gary Keller
“Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.” ― Joseph Campbell
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” — Marie Curie
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” ― André Gide
“Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.” — Marilyn Monroe
“We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.” ― Jean Houston
“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.” — Rick Riordan
“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.” — Bruce Lee
“I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.” — Jimi Hendrix
“In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.” — Eva Burrows
“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.” ― George Sand
“You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame.” — Erica Jong
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” ― Soren Kierkegaard
“Life is trying things to see if they work.” — Ray Bradbury
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” — Marcus Aurelius
“If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.” — Oprah Winfrey
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” — Mark Twain
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” ― Isaac Asimov
“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” — Charles Darwin
“When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.” — Yann Martel
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
“In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.” — Gordon B. Hinckley
“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, don’t get so worked up about things.” — Kenneth Branagh
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” ― T. S. Eliot
“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” — Albert Einstein
“Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.” — D.H. Lawrence
“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” — William James
“You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” — Oprah Winfrey
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” ― Virginia Woolf
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” ― Mae West
“Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one’s will.” ― Paul Gauguin
“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.” ― Arthur Rubinstein
“Don’t be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don’t have to live forever, you just have to live.” ― Natalie Babbitt
“What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.” — Charlie Chaplin
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” ― George Bernard Shaw
“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.” ― Oscar Wilde
“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.” — Mark Twain
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” — Morrie Schwartz
“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime…” — Khaled Hosseini
“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
“Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.” ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You have just one life to live. It is yours. Own it, claim it, live it, do the best you can with it.” — Hillary Clinton
“Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.” — Jack Kerouac
“Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.” ― Robert Brault
“A life without a cause is a life without effect.” — Paulo Coelho
“Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.” — Jack London
“Life is about making an impact, not making an income.” — Kevin Kruse
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” — Howard Thurman
“Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one’s will.” — Paul Gauguin
“It is not length of life, but depth of life.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.” ― Albert Einstein
“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” — Elbert Hubbard
“Life does not owe you anything, because life has already given you everything.” — Ralph Marston
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” — Oscar Wilde
“When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’” — Sydney J. Harris
“There are two great days in a person’s life – the day we are born and the day we discover why.” ― William Barclay
“Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.” — Grandma Moses
“The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.” — William James
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” ― T. S. Eliot
“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.” — Henry David Thoreau
“Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.” — Paulo Coelho
“Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.” ― Carol Burnett
“If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.” — Leo Tolstoy
“Many of life’s failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” — Thomas Edison
“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.” — William Goldman
“A little foolishness, enough to enjoy life, and a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do.” — Osho
