Top 100 Life Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.”

— Tony Robbins

52. “How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

53. “Make each day your masterpiece. Life is now. Life is not later on.”

— John Wooden

54. “However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”

— Stephen Hawking

55. “Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

56. “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”

— Maya Angelou

57. “As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

58. “Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

— Eckhart Tolle

59. “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

60. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.”

— Robert H. Schuller

61. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

62. “Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.”

— Hermann Hesse

63. “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

64. “Embrace the glorious mess that you are.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

65. “Life is a dance between making it happen and letting it happen.”

— Arianna Huffington

66. “No matter how busy you are, or how busy you think you are, the work will always be there tomorrow, but your friends might not be.”

— Anonymous

67. “I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it.”

— Maya Angelou

68. “You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.”

— Sylvester Stallone

69. “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”

— Anne Frank

70. “Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you.”

— John C. Maxwell

71. “Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”

— Kurt Cobain

72. “The value of our lives is not determined by what we do for ourselves. The value of our lives is determined by what we do for others.”

— Simon Sinek

73. “I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.”

— Arthur Rubinstein

74. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.”

— Oprah Winfrey

75. “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

76. “Life is now in session. Are you present?”

— John C. Maxwell

77. “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.”

— Corrie ten Boom

78. “It’s not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.”

— Tony Robbins

79. “Happiness is such an incredible advantage in our life. When the human brain is positive, our intelligence rises, we stop diverting resources to think about anxiety.”

— Shawn Achor

80. “Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.”

— Eckhart Tolle

81. “My life is perfect even when it’s not.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

82. “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”

— Annie Dillard

83. “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”

— Oprah Winfrey

84. “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”

— Albert Camus

85. “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

86. “I believe that my personal mission in life is to grow and contribute, so I am learning and growing every day.”

— Farrah Gray

87. “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”

— Elie Wiesel

88. “Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.”

— Ernest Holmes

89. “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”

— C. S. Lewis

90. “If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”

— Bruce Lee

91. “The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”

— Alan Watts

92. “Happiness is not the belief that we don’t need to change; it’s the realization that we can.”

— Shawn Achor

93. “All of life is peaks and valleys. Don’t let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.”

— John Wooden

94. “Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”

— William James

95. “Life is the dancer and you are the dance.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

97. “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

98. “For fast-acting relief try slowing down.”

— Lily Tomlin

99. “And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.’”

— Kurt Vonnegut

100. “Life is wasted on the living.”

— Douglas Adams