Top 200 Short Quotes About Life (2024 Update)
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51. “It’s not about how much you sleep. It’s what you do while you’re awake.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

52. “A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.”

— Alan Watts

53. “The law of attraction is this: You don’t attract what you want. You attract what you are.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

54. “It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

55. “My life didn’t please me, so I created my life.”

— Coco Chanel

56. “We always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have become accustomed to.”

— Paulo Coelho

57. “We are made to persist. That’s how we find out who we are.”

— Tobias Wolff

58. “Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.”

— Khalil Gibran

59. “Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.”

— Vincent van Gogh

60. “You live and learn. At any rate, you live.”

— Douglas Adams

61. “Worry drains the mind of its power and, sooner or later, it injures the soul.”

— Robin S. Sharma

62. “If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same.”

— Rudyard Kipling

63. “When you are finished changing, you're finished.”

— Benjamin Franklin

64. “Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.”

— C. S. Lewis

65. “Without discipline, there’s no life at all.”

— Katharine Hepburn

66. “You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.”

— Ayn Rand

67. “Life’s as kind as you let it be.”

— Charles Bukowski

68. “We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.”

— Epictetus

69. “Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.”

— Paulo Coelho

70. “Go fast enough to get there, but slow enough to see.”

— Jimmy Buffett

71. “Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”

— Auguste Rodin

72. “No one here gets out alive.”

— Jim Morrison

73. “Pride makes us artificial; humility makes us real.”

— Thomas Merton

74. “My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.”

— Abraham Lincoln

75. “I can’t go back to yesterday – because I was a different person then.”

— Lewis Carroll

76. “Things change; that’s the way it is.”

— Tupac Shakur

77. “We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.”

— Khalil Gibran

78. “If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.”

— Coco Chanel

79. “Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.”

— Abdul Kalam

80. “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

81. “We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation.”

— Jim Rohn

82. “I come as one, but stand as 10,000.”

— Maya Angelou

83. “If you think about the long term then you can really make good life decisions that you won’t regret later.”

— Jeff Bezos

84. “Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.”

— Marcus Aurelius

85. “All good things must come to an end.”

— Geoffrey Chaucer

86. “Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.”

— Seth Godin

87. “You don’t get another chance, life is no Nintendo game.”

— Eminem

88. “Life has many ways of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.”

— Paulo Coelho

89. “It is quality rather than quantity that matters.”

— Seneca

90. “Don’t waste your time chasing butterflies. Mend your garden, and the butterflies will come.”

— Mario Quintana

91. “No matter how talented you are, not everyone is going to like you, but that’s life. Stay strong.”

— Justin Bieber

92. “Here is my secret: I don’t mind what happens.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

93. “People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.”

— F. Matthias Alexander

94. “If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit.”

— Banksy

95. “Strength is Life, Weakness is Death. Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death. Love is Life, Hatred is Death.”

— Swami Vivekananda

96. “Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.”

— Eckhart Tolle

97. “Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.”

— Vincent van Gogh

98. “To know that you do not know is the best. To think you know when you do not is a disease. Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it.”

— Lao Tzu

99. “Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.”

— Will Smith

100. “Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what’s left and live it properly. What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.”

— Marcus Aurelius