Top 100 Life Quotes (2023 Update)

1. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”

— Mae West

2. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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3. “Everything you can imagine is real.”

— Pablo Picasso

4. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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5. “Love the life you live. Live the life you love.”

— Bob Marley

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6. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”

— Albert Einstein

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7. “It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Oscar Wilde

10. “What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?”

— John Green

11. “Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.”

— Gayle Forman

12. “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

— Confucius

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13. “It is not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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14. “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

— André Gide

15. “Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.”

— Ally Condie

16. “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”

— Allen Saunders

17. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”

— Robert Frost

18. “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

19. “You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, love like you’ll never be hurt, sing like there’s nobody listening, and live like it’s heaven on earth.”

— William W. Purkey

20. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

— Anaïs Nin

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

— Confucius

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

— Joseph Campbell

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23. “Where there is love there is life.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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24. “I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”

— John Steinbeck

25. “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

26. “Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.”

— Stephen Chbosky

27. “The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday”

— Matty Mullins

28. “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

29. “It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it’s called Life.”

— Terry Pratchett

30. “Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”

— Oscar Wilde

31. “Every moment is a fresh beginning.”

— T. S. Eliot

32. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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33. “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”

— Maya Angelou

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34. “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.”

— Babe Ruth

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35. “Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.”

— Stephen R. Covey

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

— Dr. Seuss

37. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”

— Steve Jobs

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38. “There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”

— Leonard Cohen

39. “I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.”

— William Ernest Henley

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40. “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”

— Bernard M. Baruch

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41. “Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.”

— Jim Rohn

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42. “Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.”

— Zig Ziglar

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43. “Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.”

— Lord Byron

44. “One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching.”

— Gerard Way

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45. “The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”

— Nelson Henderson

46. “Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”

— Cassandra Clare

47. “There are three constants in life: change, choice and principles.”

— Stephen R. Covey

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48. “Life is the sum of your choices.”

— Albert Camus

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49. “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

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50. “Because when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing.”

— Dr. Seuss