Life Quotes

Browse our collection of motivational quotes from famous authors

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"He who has a "why" to live for can bear any "how"."

— Nietsche
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"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."

— Søren Kierkegaard
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"A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life."

— Charles Darwin
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"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."

— Helen Keller
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"Life is what happens to you while you're making other plans."

— Napoleon Hill
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"I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, 'OK, I'm looking back on my life. I want to minimize the number of regrets I have.'"

— Jeff Bezos
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"Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."

— Arthur C. Clarke
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"Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering."

— Arthur C. Clarke
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"Where there is love there is life."

— Mahatma Gandhi
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"I cannot make my days longer. So I strive to make them better."

— Henry David Thoreau
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"If you’ve never met the devil on the road of life, it's because you’re both heading in the same direction."

— Anonymous
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"A baby is God’s opinion that life should go on."

— Carl Sandburg
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"If one day the speed kills me, do not cry because I was smiling."

— Paul Walker
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"Death is the best invention of life."

— Steve Jobs
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"Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art."

— Maya Angelou
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"Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it."

— Danny Kaye
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"The man who views the world at 50 the same he did at 20 has wasted thirty years of his life."

— Muhammad Ali
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"Life is not perfect. It never will be. You just have to make the very best of it. And you have to open your heart to what the world can show you. And sometimes it's terrifying. And sometimes it's incredibly beautiful. And I'll take both, thanks."

— Graham Nash
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"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."

— Henry Ford
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"There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age."

— Sophia Loren
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"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen."

— Mark Twain
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"Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday."

— Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Old age is just a record of one's whole life."

— Muhammad Ali
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"Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you."

— Marilyn Monroe
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"I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table."

— Rodney Dangerfield