99 Best Life Quotes

1.  Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard. Robert Frost
2. Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life. W. C. Fields
3. The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one. Elbert Hubbard
4. Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with. Oliver Hudson
5. Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. Soren Kierkegaard
6. You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself. Eleanor Roosevelt
7. Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better. Martin Luther King, Jr.
8. What is called genius is the abundance of life and health. Henry David Thoreau
9. Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained. Marie Curie
10. If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers! Marilyn Monroe
11. Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter. Charles Lindbergh
12. Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are. Anne Lamott
13. Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?' Martin Luther King, Jr.
14. All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. Walt Disney
15. To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. Emily Dickinson
16. Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life. Michael LeBoeuf
17. The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. E. M. Forster
18. Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. Rabindranath Tagore
19. Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough. Emily Dickinson
20. Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto. Dale Carnegie
21. 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
22. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. Ralph Waldo Emerson
23. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. Winston Churchill
24. You make mistakes, but I don't have any regrets. I'm the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am. Kim Kardashian
25. Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. George Bernard Shaw
26. My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time. Steve Jobs
27. 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
28. Bad things do happen how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself. Walter Anderson
29. Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Steve Jobs
30. I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table. Rodney Dangerfield
31. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. John F. Kennedy
32. I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it. Laurence Sterne
33. I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free. Angelina Jolie
34. My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment. Oprah Winfrey
35. Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday. Eleanor Roosevelt
36. May you live all the days of your life. Jonathan Swift
37. Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life. Tony Robbins
38. A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown. Denis Waitley
39. Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life. Jean de La Fontaine
40. Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it. Ralph Marston
41. It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life. Jimi Hendrix
42. I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. Theodore Roosevelt
43. One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular. Tony Robbins
44. Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar. Robert Frost
45. But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? Albert Camus
46. All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind. Abraham Lincoln
47. 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
48. I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore. Steve Jobs
49. Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth. Bradley Whitford
50. 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
51. 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
52. The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat. Albert Einstein
53. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you. Marilyn Monroe
54. I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up. Shania Twain
55. These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that. Steve Jobs
56. What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
57. If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life. Abraham Maslow
58. You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't. Caleb Carr
59. You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations. Zig Ziglar
60. We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life. William Osler
61. Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. Leon Trotsky
62. 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
63. I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role. Eleanor Roosevelt
64. What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have. Ralph Marston
65. Haters never win. I just think that's true about life, because negative energy always costs in the end. Tom Hiddleston
66. 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
67. My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her. George Washington
68. The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it. Elbert Hubbard
69. All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it. George Bernard Shaw
70. In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together. Margaret J. Wheatley
71. Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward. Henry Ford
72. The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended. Robert Frost
73. Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life. John F. Kennedy
74. 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
75. Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. Oscar Wilde
76. Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards. Soren Kierkegaard
77. Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. Helen Keller
78. Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity. Zig Ziglar
79. Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man. Martin Luther King, Jr.
80. Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself. Joseph Campbell
81. Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be. Jose Ortega y Gasset
82. I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try. Nikki Giovanni
83. One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that. Joseph Campbell
84. 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
85. Being yourself is one of the hardest things because it's scary. You always wonder whether you'll be accepted for who you really are. I decided to call my record 'Inside Out' because that's my motto about life. I don't think you ever succeed at trying to be anyone else but who you truly are. Emmy Rossum
86. A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. Henry David Thoreau
87. I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you're emotions going. Jim Valvano
88. You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change. John Cleese
89. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life. Joel Osteen
90. In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. Robert Frost
91. My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can. Cary Grant
92. All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another. Anatole France
93. 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
94. The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. Confucius
95. The shoe that fits one person pinches another there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Carl Jung
96. 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
97. Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is. Bob Feller
98. A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. Joseph Campbell
99. My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them. Winston Churchill