100 Quotes about life by famous people life quotes

Feeling the lack of confidence to struggle on in your life? Need some inspiration? I will say yes.

Yes, you need some inspiration for overcoming every obstacle, hardship, and pain that life at some certain points throws at us.

To be frank, in my opinion, those difficulties are not difficulties. They are lessons in the guise of difficulties. They come to our life not to destroy us, but to make us strong and endurable to fight any challenge in life.

Over the years many authors, novelists, poets, philosophers, as well as a number of eminent personalities told us their life experiences. We often like to hear them. For they are stuffed with the enormous motivation that sometimes gives us goosebumps.

You have only one life. Don't waste it on others who despise you and let you down. Savor every single moment of your day; make others smile and make your life a delicious dish to be served. If you can't make others smile, try not to be the cause of their pain.

I would like to begin this article about life quotes with my favorite quote by Earl Nightingale:

"Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored."

1. "There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."
-George Sand

2. "Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it."
- Charles R. Swindoll

3. "Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more and don't get so worked up about things."
- Kenneth Branagh

4. "Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me."
- Carol Burnett

5. "Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay."
- Simon de Beauvoir

6. "Stay true to yourself, yet always be open to learn. Work hard, and never give up on your dreams, even when nobody else believes they can come true but you. These are not cliches but real tools you need no matter what you do in life to stay focused on your path."
- Phillip Sweet

7. "Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life."
- Yoko Ono

8. "Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."
- Norman Cousins

9. "Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."
- Rabindranath Tagore

10. "Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth."
- Menachem Begin

11. "Life is full of happiness and tears; be strong and have faith."
- Kareena Kapoor Khan

12. "The biggest adventure you can take is  to live the life of your dreams."
- Oprah Winfrey

13. "Do not dwell on the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moments."
- Budda

14. "Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."
- Confucius

15. "God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well."
- Voltaire

16."Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better."
- Henry Rollins

17. "Luck is great, but most of life is hard work."
-Iain Duncan Smith

18. "Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations."
- Oliver Goldsmith

19. "At the end of the day, life is about being happy being who you are, and I feel like we are so blessed to have the support system and the best family to really just support each other no matter what we're going through."
- Kim Kardashian

20. "Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.


21. "A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love."
- Max Muller

22. "Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world."
- Lucille Ball

23. "Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love."
- Mother Teresa

24. "Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."
- Robert Frost

25. "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
- Oscar Wilde

26. "If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of."
- Bruce Lee

27. "Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor."
- Sholom Aleichem

28. "The purpose of our lives is to be happy."
- Dalai Lama

29. "The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for."
- Bob Marley

30. "Sing like no one’s listening, love like you’ve never been hurt, dance like nobody’s watching, and live like its heaven on earth."
- Mark Twain

31. "When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
- Helen Keller

32. "Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more."
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

33. "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
- Mahatma Gandhi

34. "If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."
- Albert Einstein

35. "Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over."
- Gloria Naylor

36. "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

37. "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present."
- Bil Keane

38. "Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

39. "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do."
- Mark Twain

40. "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

41. "A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."
- David Brinkley

42. "The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without."
- Elie Wiesel

43. "Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world."
- Harriet Tubman

44. "Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

45. "The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."
- Helen Keller

46. " Don't give it five minutes if you're not going to give it five years."
- Meghan Markle  

47. "Every day is not a success. Every year is not a success. You have to celebrate the good."
- Reese Witherspoon 

48. "To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone."
- Reba McEntire 

49. "The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams."
- Oprah Winfrey 

50. "I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed."
- Michael Jordan 

51. "Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory."
- Dr. Seuss  

52. "Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations."
- Unknown

53. "  You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."
- C.S. Lewis

54. "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
- Albert Einstein

55. "Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans."
- John Lennon

56. "I love those who can smile in trouble."
- Leonardo da Vinci

57. "Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life."
- Omar Khayyam

58. "It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."
- Andre Gide

59. "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."
- William James

60. "We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
- William Shakespeare

61. "The trick in life is learning how to deal with it."
- Helen Mirren

62. "Time means a lot to me because, you see, I, too, am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing and simplifying. If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of."
- Bruce Lee

63. "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
- Oscar Wilde

64. "Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened."
- Ludwig Jacobowski

65. "Life is too important to be taken seriously."
- Oscar Wilde

66. "Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground."
- Theodore Roosevelt

67. "It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life."
- Elizabeth Kenny

68. "Life is a question and how we live it is our answer."
- Gary Keller

69. "In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on."
- Robert Frost

70. "The mind is everything. What you think you become."
- Buddha

71. "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. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."
- Steve Jobs

72. "You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
- Mahatma Gandhi

73. "Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
- George Bernard Shaw

74. "Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
- Mark Twain

75. "The greatest pleasure of life is love."
- Euripides

76. "Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."
- Confucius

77. "I find beauty in unusual things, like hanging your head out the window or sitting on a fire escape."
- Scarlett Johansson

78. "Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact."
- William James

79. "Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there."
- Will Rogers

80. "Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes."
- Benjamin Disraeli

81. "Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment."
- Mahatma Gandhi

82. "Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get."
- Ray Kroc

83. " Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others."
- Winston Churchill

84. "Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed. In the second, it is opposed. In the third, it is regarded as self evident."
- Arthur Schopenhauer

85. "Either you run the day, or the day runs you."
- Jim Rohn

86. "Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try."
- Jack Canfield

87. "The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible."
- Arthur C. Clarke

88. "To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him."
- Buddha

89. "Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life."
- Budda

90. "Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship."
- Buddha

91. "You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."
- Rabindranath Tagore

92. "By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower."
- Rabindranath Tagore

93. "The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race."
- Don Marquis

94. "You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself."
95. "The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
- Swami Vivekananda

96. "If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun."
- APJ Abdul Kalam

97. "Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow."
- APJ Abdul Kalam

98. "It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams."
- APJ Abdul Kalam

99. "Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher."
- William Wordsworth 

100. "Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached."
- Swami Vivekananda

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