Top 200 Live Life Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Dream big, stay positive, work hard, and enjoy the journey.”

— Urijah Faber

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Quotes About Dreams, Achievement Quotes

2. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

— Oscar Wilde

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

3. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Success Quotes, Life Quotes, Happiness Quotes

4. “The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.”

— Casey Neistat

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Courage Quotes, Confidence Quotes

5. “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”

— Lao Tzu

Also featured in: Wisdom Quotes, Philosophical Quotes, Quality Quotes

6. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”

— Helen Keller

Also featured in: Attitude Quotes, Action Quotes, Encouragement Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes

7. “The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.”

— Oprah Winfrey

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Optimistic Quotes

8. “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”

— Oprah Winfrey

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Feel Good Quotes

9. “To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.”

— Osho

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Music Quotes, Creativity Quotes, Optimistic Quotes

10. “It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”

— Marcus Aurelius

Also featured in: Action Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes, Growth Quotes

11. “Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”

— Dr. Seuss

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Life Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Creativity Quotes

12. “It’s better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”

— Alfred Tennyson

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Quality Quotes, Broken Heart Quotes, Soulmate Quotes

13. “Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.”

— Alan Watts

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes, Passion Quotes

14. “Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Change Quotes, Transformation Quotes

15. “Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty. I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Hard Work Quotes

16. “You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it’s better to listen to what it has to say.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Passion Quotes

17. “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

Also featured in: Interesting Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes, Moving On Quotes

18. “Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.”

— Oscar Wilde

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Action Quotes, Creativity Quotes

19. “I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Service Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes

20. “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”

— Alan Watts

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes, Moving On Quotes

21. “The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”

— Jack London

Also featured in: Interesting Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes, Intelligent Quotes, Life Is Short Quotes

22. “Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny – he has something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered, some work has to be completed. You are not here accidentally – you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you. The whole intends to do something through you.”

— Osho

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Enlightenment Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes

23. “If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.”

— William Arthur Ward

Also featured in: Confidence Quotes, Encouragement Quotes, Quotes About Dreams, Determination Quotes

24. “Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”

— Deepak Chopra

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Transformation Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

25. “You change the world by being yourself.”

— Yoko Ono

Also featured in: Confidence Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Changing the World Quotes, Being Yourself Quotes

26. “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Also featured in: Attitude Quotes, Feel Good Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes

27. “Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Happy Quotes

28. “The journey is what brings us happiness, not the destination.”

— Dan Millman

Also featured in: Perspective Quotes, Philosophy Quotes, Being Happy Quotes, Moving Forward Quotes

29. “If you can’t do great things, do small things in a great way. Don’t wait for great opportunities. Seize common, everyday ones and make them great.”

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Goal Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Excellence Quotes

30. “Do your best and then relax. Let things go on in a natural way, rather than force them.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Also featured in: Reflection Quotes, Quotes About Trying, Peace Quotes

31. “The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”

— Jack Kerouac

Also featured in: Creativity Quotes, Passion Quotes, Freedom Quotes, Crazy Quotes

32. “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

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Learning Quotes

33. “Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.”

— Oprah Winfrey

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Values Quotes, Choices Quotes

34. “At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.”

— Steve Maraboli

Also featured in: Choices Quotes, Moving On Quotes, Commitment Quotes, Life Is Short Quotes

35. “In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.”

— Lao Tzu

Also featured in: Meaningful Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Intelligent Quotes

36. “In order to write about life first you must live it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Also featured in: Fiction Quotes, Experience Quotes, Quotes About Writing

37. “Be true to yourself. Make each day your masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day. Pray for guidance and give thanks for your blessings every day.”

— John Wooden

Also featured in: Interesting Quotes, Values Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes

38. “Life isn’t happening to you; life is responding to you.”

— Rhonda Byrne

Also featured in: Emotional Quotes, Law Of Attraction Quotes, Quotes About Thinking, Choices Quotes

39. “Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Feel Good Quotes, Faith Quotes, Passion Quotes

40. “Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake up and live!”

— Bob Marley

Also featured in: Optimistic Quotes, Moving On Quotes, Being Happy Quotes

41. “Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Feel Good Quotes, Encouragement Quotes, Practice Quotes

42. “Only the present moment contains life.”

— Nhat Hanh

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Experience Quotes, Mindfulness Quotes

43. “Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything. ”

— Ernest Hemingway

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Mental Health Quotes

44. “Live out of your imagination, not your history.”

— Stephen R. Covey

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Encouragement Quotes, Choices Quotes

45. “Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.”

— Les Brown

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Action Quotes, Quality Quotes

46. “Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Goal Quotes, Creativity Quotes

47. “I constantly get out of my comfort zone. Looking cool is the easiest way to mediocrity. The coolest guy in my high school ended up working at a car wash. Once you push yourself into something new, and whole new world of opportunities opens up. But you might get hurt. In fact you will get hurt. But amazingly when you heal – you are somewhere you’ve never been.”

— Terry Crews

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Growth Quotes, Risk-Taking Quotes, Progress Quotes

48. “Always do what you are afraid to do.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Courage Quotes, Overcoming Fear Quotes

49. “A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.”

— Lao Tzu

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Philosophical Quotes

50. “So much universe, and so little time.”

— Terry Pratchett

Also featured in: Universe Quotes, Life Is Short Quotes, Witty Quotes