99 Quotes For Life

1.  One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead. Oscar Wilde
2. People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know. Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. Victor Hugo
4. I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life. Muhammad Ali
5. Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts. Soren Kierkegaard
6. Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
7. The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. Oprah Winfrey
8. Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed. Wayne Dyer
9. The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life. Plato
10. Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious. Phillips Brooks
11. It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. Alan Cohen
12. Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him. Groucho Marx
13. In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. Robert Frost
14. If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man. James Dean
15. Life is a long lesson in humility. James M. Barrie
16. I'll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I'll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I'm not there, but I'll always come back. Steve Jobs
17. You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue. Joel Osteen
18. Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. Ayn Rand
19. Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. Samuel Butler
20. The lie is a condition of life. Friedrich Nietzsche
21. Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life. Dalai Lama
22. I put all my genius into my life I put only my talent into my works. Oscar Wilde
23. Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart. Kevyn Aucoin
24. If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. Joseph Addison
25. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. Anais Nin
26. The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. Bertrand Russell
27. The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. Marcus Aurelius
28. The person lives twice who lives the first life well. Robert Herrick
29. Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. Eleanor Roosevelt
30. Education is not preparation for life education is life itself. John Dewey
31. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. Mark Twain
32. School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice? Billie Joe Armstrong
33. Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do. Napoleon Hill
34. There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. Robert Louis Stevenson
35. Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison. Mahatma Gandhi
36. If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. Eleanor Roosevelt
37. I spent my whole life in the private sector, 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people, it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things, the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow, we don't put Americans to work. Mitt Romney
38. We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it! Gary Ryan Blair
39. The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. Aristotle
40. It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life. Elizabeth Kenny
41. Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies. Albert Camus
42. You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own. Michelle Obama
43. 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. Lao Tzu
44. When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'. Erma Bombeck
45. When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself. Tecumseh
46. We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. Joseph Campbell
47. Life is to be entered upon with courage. Alexis de Tocqueville
48. Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. Rabindranath Tagore
49. This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it. William James
50. It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity. Cesar Chavez
51. God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything. Bede Griffiths
52. The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. Mark Twain
53. If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit. William J. Clinton
54. I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. Rabindranath Tagore
55. A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life. William Arthur Ward
56. If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's. John F. Kennedy
57. I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind. Emily Bronte
58. And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. William Shakespeare
59. I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life. Jerry Lewis
60. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. Henry David Thoreau
61. When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands. George Carlin
62. The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments. Gustave Flaubert
63. The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. William James
64. Unbeing dead isn't being alive. e. e. cummings
65. The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life. George Bernard Shaw
66. To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance. Buddha
67. The shoe that fits one person pinches another there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Carl Jung
68. People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend. Jim Morrison
69. I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to. Jimi Hendrix
70. Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. Joseph Campbell
71. Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. Rose Kennedy
72. The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. Anais Nin
73. One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. Simone de Beauvoir
74. The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body. Mahatma Gandhi
75. Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life. Robert Louis Stevenson
76. While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness. Gilda Radner
77. Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance. Plato
78. I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it. Audrey Hepburn
79. Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone. Charlie Chaplin
80. No man is a failure who is enjoying life. William Feather
81. Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself. Sydney Madwed
82. A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. Charles Darwin
83. Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped. Charles Stanley
84. The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up. John C. Maxwell
85. When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?' Sydney J. Harris
86. I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. Theodore Roosevelt
87. Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes. Carl Friedrich Gauss
88. Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. Karen Horney
89. Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Pablo Picasso
90. My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. Malcolm X
91. My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, 'Oh God, I've got to do this today.' Richard Branson
92. There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering. Theodore Roosevelt
93. Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. Confucius
94. I had no blood relatives till I made some. Andy Dick
95. We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child. Ronald Reagan
96. You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There's nobility in that. There's focus. It's genuine. It's crystal and it's pure and it's available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it. Charlie Sheen
97. Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity. W. Clement Stone
98. My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art. Jimi Hendrix
99. Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand. Khalil Gibran