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172 Quotes on life

Believe you can and you’re halfway there. When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go. I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. No matter what you’re going through, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.

So, here are some quotes which might help you.

  1. “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” — Dalai Lama
  2. “Everything you can imagine is real.” ― Pablo Picasso
  3. “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.” ― Dr. Seuss
  4. “Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.” ― Dr. Seuss
  5. “I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” ― Woody Allen
  6. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” ― Albert Einstein
  7. “Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.” ― John Green
  8. “Reality continues to ruin my life.” ― Bill Watterson
  9. “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.” ― Stephen Chbosk
  10. “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.” ― John Green
  11. “When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.” ― Jess C. Scott
  12. “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” — John Lennon
  13. “Get busy living or get busy dying.” — Stephen King
  14. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West
  15. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”– Thomas A. Edison
  16. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”– Albert Einstein
  17. “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.”– Babe Ruth
  18. “Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.” — Will Smith
  19. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.” – Steve Jobs
  20. “Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.” — Seneca
  21. “If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
  22. “The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.”– Henry Ford
  23. “In order to write about life first you must live it.”– Ernest Hemingway
  24. “The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.”– Frank Sinatra
  25. “Sing like no one’s listening, love like you’ve never been hurt, dance like nobody’s watching, and live like it’s heaven on earth.” – (Attributed to various sources)
  26. “Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.” – Leo Burnett
  27. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”– Soren Kierkegaard
  28. “The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates
  29. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” — Oprah Winfrey
  30. “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” —Dolly Parton
  31. “Do all the good you can, for all the people you can, in all the ways you can, as long as you can.” — Hillary Clinton (inspired by John Wesley quote)
  32. “Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.” — Ashton Kutcher
  33. “Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.” — Kevin Hart
  34. “Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.” — Kobe Bryant
  35. “I like criticism. It makes you strong.” — LeBron James
  36. “You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.” ― George Clooney
  37. “Life imposes things on you that you can’t control, but you still have the choice of how you’re going to live through this.” — Celine Dion
  38. “Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.” — John F. Kennedy
  39. “Live for each second without hesitation.” — Elton John
  40. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein
  41. “Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.” — Confucius
  42. “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” — Helen Keller
  43. “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” — Steve Jobs
  44. “My mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” — Forrest Gump (Forrest Gump Quotes)
  45. “Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.”— Lao-Tze
  46. “When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or the life of another.” — Helen Keller
  47. “The healthiest response to life is joy.” — Deepak Chopra
  48. “Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.” — Lillian Dickson
  49. “The best portion of a good man’s life is his little nameless, unencumbered acts of kindness and of love.” — Wordsworth
  50. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.” ― Robert Frost
  51. Related: 100 Inspirational Quotes
  52. “Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” — Charles Swindoll
  53. “Keep calm and carry on.” — Winston Churchill
  54. “Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.” — Jack Kerouac
  55. “Life is a flower of which love is the honey.” — Victor Hugo
  56. “Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.” — Marilyn Monroe
  57. “Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.” — Buddha
  58. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” — Dr. Seuss
  59. “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” — Mark Twain
  60. “Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.” — Stephen Hawking
  61. “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
  62. “The greatest pleasure of life is love.” — Euripides
  63. “Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.” — Grandma Moses
  64. “Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.” — Benjamin Franklin
  65. “Life is about making an impact, not making an income.” — Kevin Kruse
  66. “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan
  67. “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” – Babe Ruth
  68. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain
  69. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin
  70. “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.  When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.  I wrote down ‘happy’.  They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” – John Lennon
  71. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” – Les Brown
  72. “I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.” —Neil Armstrong 
  73. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” —Mahatma Gandhi
  74. “If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person.” —Bill Clinton
  75. “Life is short, and it is here to be lived.” —Kate Winslet 
  76. “The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.” —Frank Lloyd Wright
  77. “Every moment is a fresh beginning.” —T.S. Eliot
  78. “When you cease to dream you cease to live.” —Malcolm Forbes
  79. “If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.” —Morris West
  80. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” —Dr. Seuss 
  81. “If you can do what you do best and be happy, you’re further along in life than most people.” —Leonardo DiCaprio
  82. “We should remember that just as a positive outlook on life can promote good health, so can everyday acts of kindness.” —Hillary Clinton
  83. “Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.” —Mary Kay Ash 
  84. “It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” —J. K. Rowling
  85. “If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. And if you’re not flexible, you’ll pound your head against the wall and you won’t see a different solution to a problem you’re trying to solve.” —Jeff Bezos
  86. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” — Abraham Lincoln
  87. “You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.” —Michael Jordan
  88. “Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.” —Jay-Z
  89. “There are no mistakes, only opportunities.” —Tina Fey
  90. “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 Buffett
  91. “As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.” —Audrey Hepburn
  92. “Sometimes you can’t see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.” —Ellen DeGeneres
  93. “You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.” —Mahatma Gandhi 
  94. “All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  95. “Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes … the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules … You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things … They push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius” – Steve Jobs
  96. “It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” – Leonardo Da Vinci
  97. “Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.” — Will Smith
  98. “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”– Buddha
  99. “Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.” – Sholom Aleichem
  100. “If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” – Bruce Lee
  101. When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us. – Alexander Graham Bell
  102. “Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.” — Anonymous
  103. “Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” – Omar Khayyam
  104. “Happiness is the feeling that power increases — that resistance is being overcome.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
  105. “I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.” — John Stuart Mill
  106.  The secret of happiness, you see is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”-Socrates
  107. “The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.” — Confucius
  108. “The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.”— Seneca
  109. “Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.” — Henry David Thoreau
  110. “When it is obvious that goals can’t be reached, don’t adjust the goals, but adjust the action steps.” — Confucius
  111. “There may be people who have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do – and I believe that.” — Derek Jeter
  112. “Don’t be afraid to fail. It’s not the end of the world, and in many ways, it’s the first step toward learning something and getting better at it.” — Jon Hamm
  113. “Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.” – Drew Barrymore
  114. “I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you’re gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like that. But I don’t believe that anymore.” – Bradley Cooper
  115. “I don’t believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It’s a mean thing, life.” – George Clooney
  116.  “It’s never too late – never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.” – Jane Fonda
  117. “You’re only human. You live once and life is wonderful, so eat the damned red velvet cupcake.” – Emma Stone
  118. “A lot of people give up just before they’re about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one.” – Chuck Norris (related: 101 Chuck Norris Jokes)
  119. “Be nice to people on the way up, because you may meet them on the way down.” – Jimmy Durante
  120. “I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it’s up to me.” – Brad Pitt
  121. “The minute that you’re not learning I believe you’re dead.” – Jack Nicholson
  122.  “Life’s tough, but it’s tougher when you’re stupid.” – John Wayne
  123. “Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life — think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.” — Swami Vivekananda
  124. “I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living or get busy dying.” — Shawshank Redemption
  125. “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” —  Paulo Coelho
  126. “There are three things you can do with your life: You can waste it, you can spend it, or you can invest it. The best use of your life is to invest it in something that will last longer than your time on Earth.” — Rick Warren
  127. “You only pass through this life once, you don’t come back for an encore.” — Elvis Presley
  128. “In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.” — Anne Frank
  129.  “You’re not defined by your past; you’re prepared by it. You’re stronger, more experienced, and you have greater confidence.” — Joel Osteen
  130. “We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.” — Jimmy Carter
  131. “Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.” — Seneca
  132. “Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place.” — Jennifer Aniston
  133. “Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby.” — George Bernard Shaw
  134. “Just disconnect. Once in a day sometime, sit silently and from all connections disconnect yourself.” — Yoda (Star Wars Quotes)
  135. “Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life.” — Buddha
  136. “Living an experience, a particular fate, is accepting it fully.” — Albert Camus
  137.  “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” — Oprah Winfrey
  138. “Your image isn’t your character. Character is what you are as a person.” — Derek Jeter
  139. “Football is like life, it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.” — Vince Lombardi
  140. “As you know, life is an echo; we get what we give.” — David DeNotaris
  141. “There are no regrets in life, just lessons.” — Jennifer Aniston
  142.  “I believe that nothing in life is unimportant every moment can be a beginning.” — John McLeod
  143.  “Find people who will make you better.” — Michelle Obama
  144.  “As my knowledge of things grew I felt more and more the delight of the world I was in.” — Helen Keller
  145. “Benjamin Franklin was a humanitarian that dedicated his life to making contributions to all humans. He had a clear purpose for himself: improve the human race.” — Paulo Braga
  146. “You cannot control everything that happens to you; you can only control the way you respond to what happens. In your response is your power.” — Anonymous
  147. “Don’t allow your past or present condition to control you. It’s just a process that you’re going through to get you to the next level.” – T.D. Jakes
  148. “You will meet two kinds of people in life: ones who build you up and ones who tear you down. But in the end, you’ll thank them both.” — Anonymous
  149.  “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
  150. “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” ― J.K. Rowling
  151. “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” ― Mark Twain
  152. “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.” ― Allen Saunders
  153. “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” ― douglas adams,
  154. “If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.” – Gail Sheehy
  155.  “You choose the life you live. If you don’t like it, it’s on you to change it because no one else is going to do it for you.” – Kim Kiyosaki
  156. “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously, that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case you fail by default.” — Anonymous
  157.  “Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
  158.  “The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don’t always spoil the good things and make them unimportant.” – Doctor Who
  159. “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” ― Andre Gide
  160. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” ― Albert Einstein
  161.  “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.” – Vivian Greene
  162. “I enjoy life when things are happening. I don’t care if it’s good things or bad things. That means you’re alive.” – Joan Rivers
  163. “There’s more to life than basketball. The most important thing is your family and taking care of each other and loving each other no matter what.” – Stephen Curry
  164. “Today, you have 100% of your life left.” – Tom Landry
  165. “Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.” – George Halas
  166. “Make each day your masterpiece.” – John Wooden
  167. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” ― Mae West
  168. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” ― Robert Frost
  169. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” ― Oscar Wilde
  170. “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.” ― Narcotics Anonymous
  171.  “You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.” – Michael Phelps
  172. “I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.” ― Marilyn Monroe

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