125 Life Quotes

Here are 125 of the best life quotes and images. The goal? To help you find the inspiration and wisdom you need for living a good and simple life. Enjoy!

Life is a mountain. Your goal is to find your path, not to reach the top. Maxime Lagacé Click to tweet

Three things in life – your health, your mission, and the people you love. That’s it. Naval Ravikant Click to tweet

Life is from the inside out. When you shift on the inside, life shifts on the outside. Kamal Ravikant Click to tweet

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done. Bruce Lee (Graphic by Minimal Shades) Click to tweet

Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground. Theodore Roosevelt Click to tweet

Change your thoughts and you change your world. Norman Vincent Peale Click to tweet

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Søren Kierkegaard Click to tweet

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life. Elizabeth Kenny Click to tweet

Believe you can and you’re halfway there. Theodore Roosevelt Click to tweet

Life is a question and how we live it is our answer. Gary Keller Click to tweet

Difficult and meaningful will always bring more satisfaction than easy and meaningless. Maxime Lagacé Click to tweet

Keep looking up… that’s the secret of life. Snoopy Click to tweet

Life is too important to be taken seriously. Oscar Wilde Click to tweet

Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get. Forrest Gump Click to tweet

The only way out is through. Robert Frost Click to tweet

It always seems impossible until it’s done. Nelson Mandela Click to tweet

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well. Jack London Click to tweet

Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments. Rose Kennedy Click to tweet

Related quote topics: positive, inner peace, perseverance, life is short, life is beautiful

Please keep reading and you’ll discover what people mean when they say “the good life”.

You’ll find inspiring authors like Confucius, Mother Teresa, Bob Marley, da Vinci, etc.

one thing I’ve discovered myself is this:

the good life is not about comfort, “success”, stuff, achievements.

It’s more about meaning, doing what we love, simplicity, being healthy and surrounded by people we love.

I’ve also learned that most of us want to feel in control of our lives.

having high expectations can actually ruin your happiness.

So make sure you live more in the moment, spontaneously.

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing. Seneca

My life is my message. Mahatma Gandhi Click to tweet

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold. Bob Marley

I love those who can smile in trouble. Leonardo da Vinci

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. Confucius

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. Omar Khayyam

Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans. John Lennon

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. Marcus Aurelius

Life is short, and truth works far and lives long: let us then speak the truth. Arthur Schopenhauer

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. Benjamin Franklin

In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln Click to tweet

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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. William James

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. Elbert Hubbard

Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager. Susan Sontag

Don’t search for the meaning of life. Simply be present for the people you love. Maxime Lagacé

You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching. William W. Purkey Click to tweet

The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet. Gustave Flaubert

In the middle of a difficulty lies opportunity. Albert Einstein

Your goal in life is to find out the people who need you the most, to find out the business that needs you the most, to find the project and the art that needs you the most. There is something out there just for you. Naval Ravikant

Sing the song that only you can sing, write the book that only you can write, build the product that only you can build… live the life that only you can live. Naval Ravikant

I tell you, in this world being a little crazy helps to keep you sane. Zsa Zsa Gabor

Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don’t get so worked up about things. Kenneth Branagh

The trick in life is learning how to deal with it. Helen Mirren

Those who realize their folly are not true fools. Zhuangzi Click to tweet

I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to. Jimi Hendrix

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. Oscar Wilde

Get busy living or get busy dying. Stephen King Click to tweet

Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. Ludwig JacobowskiPart 2. Life Quotes That Are…The Most Famous Life Quotes

Seeking a famous life quote? Check out those by Einstein, Helen Keller, Thoreau, Lao Tzu, etc.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. Helen Keller Click to tweet

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. Henry David Thoreau

Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. St. Augustine

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. Mae West

The mind is everything. What you think you become. Buddha

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. Lao Tzu

The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. Steve Jobs

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify. Henry David Thoreau Click to tweet

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The best way out is always through. Robert Frost

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. George S. Patton

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. George Bernard Shaw

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. Eleanor Roosevelt

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. Mark Twain

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. Confucius

Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game. Babe Ruth