Read our collection of the best life quotes of all time – some beautiful reminders that we are able to create our own story, share it with others and dance in joy, love and happiness through our life.
Top 100 Best Life Quotes of All Time
1 – “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
2 – “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” – Charles Darwin
3 – “Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.” – William James
4 – “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
5 – “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss
6 – “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” – Will Rogers
7 – “Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.” – Emily Dickinson
8 – “Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
9 – “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” – Mark Twain
10 – “I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.” – Walt Disney
11 – “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” – Stephen Covey
12 – “If life were predictable, it would cease to be life and be without flavor.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
13 – “In three words, I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.” – Robert Frost
14 – “It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” – J.K. Rowling
15 – “You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching.” – William W. Purkey
16 – “In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.” – Mother Teresa
17 – “Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” – Dennis P. Kimbro
18 – “Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.” – Cassandra Clare
19 – “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
20 – “The mind is everything. What you think you become.” – Buddha
21 – “Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.” – Sarah Louise Delany
22 – “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
23 – “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.” – Dr. Seuss
24 – “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.” – Allen Saunders
25 – “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anaïs Nin
26 – “Live each day as if your life had just begun.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
27 – “The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters.” – Audrey Hepburn
28 – “Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”– Carl Bard
29 – “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde
30 – “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
31 – “You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.” – Jim Rohn
32 – “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Mae West
33 – “Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.” – Les Brown
34 – “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” – Charles Darwin
35 – “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Ludwig Jacobowski
36 – “All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
37 – “Change your thoughts, and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale
38 – “Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.” – William James
39 – “Challenges, failures, defeats and ultimately, progress, are what make your life worthwhile.” – Maxime Lagacé
40 – “Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” – Norman Cousins
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41 – “Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” – Elbert Hubbard
42 – “Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.” – Leo Buscaglia
43 – “Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.” – Emily Dickinson
44 – “All of life is peaks and valleys. Don’t let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.” – John Wooden
45 – “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau
46 – “However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.” – Stephen Hawking
47 – “Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.” – Alan Sachs
48 – “If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.” – Rick Riordan
49 – “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” – Albert Einstein
50 – “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
51 – “However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.” – Stephen Hawking
52 – “Keep calm and carry on.” – Winston Churchill
53 – “The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.” – Carl Rogers
54 – “Keep smiling because life is a beautiful thing, and there’s so much to smile about.” – Marilyn Monroe
55 – “Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
56 – “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” – Soren Kierkegaard
57 – “Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.” – Steve Jobs
58 – “Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.” – Les Brown
59 – “The greatest pleasure of life is love.” – Euripides
60 – “Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one’s will.” – Paul Gauguin
61 – “To live will be an awfully big adventure.” – Peter Pan
62 – “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” – Albert Einstein
63 – “Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.” – Charles Swindoll
64 – “The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
65 – “Life is a question and how we live it is our answer.” – Gary Keller
66 – “The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which bridge to burn.” – David Russell
67 – “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
68 – “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” – Morrie Schwartz
69 – “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
70 – “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” – Dalai Lama
71 – “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
72 – “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost
73 – “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get.” – Forrest Gump
74 – “The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
75 – “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
76 – “The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” – Nelson Henderson
77 – “Life is too important to be taken seriously.” – Oscar Wilde
78 – “There are two great days in a person’s life – the day we are born and the day we discover why.” – William Barclay
79 – “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon
80 – “Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.” – Margaret Mitchell
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81 – “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” – William Shakespeare
82 – “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while you could miss it.” – Ferris Bueller
83 – “Love the life you live. Live the life you love.” – Bob Marley
84 – “There is only one happiness in life – to love and to be loved.” – George Sand
85 – “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
86 – “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” – Oscar Wilde
87 – “Life is to enjoyed, not endured.” – Gordon Hinckley
88 – “When you arise in the morning think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive, to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” – Marcus Aurelius
89 – “Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.” – D. H. Lawrence
90 – “May you live all the days of your life.” – Jonathan Swift
91 – “Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works.” – Tom Peters
92 – “Without the rain there would be no rainbow.” – Gilbert Chesterton
93 – “Life is trying things to see if they work.” – Ray Bradbury
94 – “You cannot find peace avoiding life.” – Virginia Woolf
95 – “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” – Maya Angelou
96 – “You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.” – Walter Hagen
97 – “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Joe Lewis
98 – “Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” – Charles Swindoll
99 – “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” – Oprah Winfrey
100 – “Keep looking up…that’s the secret of life…” – Snoopy
