Life Related Quotes

 Let’s inspire us by some outstanding quotes of famous people.

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

• Martin Luther King

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 Devid Thoreau

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

• John F Kennedy

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

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

• Albert Campus

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

• Mark Twain

Life must be lived as play.

• Plato

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

• Steve Jobs

This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

• William Shakespeare

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

• Marcus Aurelius

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

• Socrates

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

• Henry Frederick Amiel 

The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.

• Audrey Hepburn

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

• E M Forsters

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

• Confucius

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

• Marcus Aurelius

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

• George Bernard Shaw

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

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

• Henry David Thoreau

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.

• William Osler

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

• Albert Einstein

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

• Winston Churchill

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

• Elenor Roosevelt

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

• Mark Twain

Life is a lively process of becoming.

• Douglas MacArthur

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

• George Washington Carver

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

• Wayne Dier

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

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

• Maya Angelou

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

• Lou Holtz

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

• Elenor Roosevelt

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

• Bob Marley

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

• Albert Einstein

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

• Charlie Chaplin

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

• Charles Darwin

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

• Mark Twain

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

• Napoleon Hill

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

• Oscar Wilde

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

• Mel Brooks

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

• Soren Kierkeegard

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

• Ralph Waldo Emerson