Top 200 Short Quotes About Life (2025 Update)
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101. “Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.”

— Mother Teresa

102. “You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.”

— Jerry West

103. “I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.”

— Vincent van Gogh

104. “You don’t have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.”

— Dan Millman

105. “Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.”

— Stephen Hawking

106. “A shared life is a great life.”

— Casey Neistat

107. “We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.”

— Khalil Gibran

108. “Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”

— Haruki Murakami

109. “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.”

— Mark Twain

110. “You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.”

— Robin Williams

111. “The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.”

— Eminem

112. “The journey is the destination.”

— Dan Eldon

113. “For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.”

— Winston Churchill

114. “Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.”

— Confucius

115. “You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.”

— Marilyn Monroe

116. “It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

117. “There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.”

— George Bernard Shaw

118. “Youth is wasted on the young.”

— George Bernard Shaw

119. “If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”

— Leo Tolstoy

120. “It is no bad thing celebrating a simple life.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

121. “You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.”

— Neil Gaiman

122. “The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

123. “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

124. “Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose.”

— Thomas A. Edison

125. “Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

126. “I’ve seen extreme bravery from the least likely of people. Life is about the moments when it’s all gone wrong. That’s when we define ourselves.”

— Bear Grylls

127. “I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

128. “Most people tiptoe their way through life, hoping they make it safely to death.”

— Earl Nightingale

129. “Inch by inch, life’s a cinch. Yard by yard, life’s hard.”

— John Bytheway

130. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

131. “The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.”

— Carlos Castaneda

132. “Life is beautiful in all its colors, even the darker ones, they’re here for a reason.”

— Chris Martin

133. “Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.”

— Oscar Wilde

134. “Every day create your history, every path you take you’re leaving your legacy.”

— Michael Jackson

135. “As time goes on, you’ll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn’t, doesn’t. Time solves most things. And what time can’t solve, you have to solve yourself.”

— Haruki Murakami

136. “So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!”

— Viktor E. Frankl

137. “Forever is composed of nows.”

— Emily Dickinson

138. “If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.”

— Cesare Pavese

139. “The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.”

— Mary Pickford

140. “You will never get any more out of this life than you expect.”

— Bruce Lee

141. “The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.”

— John C. Maxwell

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

143. “Your direction is more important than your speed.”

— Richard L. Evans

144. “A decision made from fear is always the wrong decision.”

— Tony Robbins

145. “While we teach, we learn.”

— Seneca the Younger

146. “A man ought to live in this world like a lotus leaf, which grows in water but is never moistened by water; so a man ought to live in the world – his heart to God and his hands to work.”

— Swami Vivekananda

147. “I don’t live to work; I work to live.”

— Noel Gallagher

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

— John Wooden

149. “Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.”

— Frida Kahlo

150. “If I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits.”

— Og Mandino