Life Quotes
Browse our collection of motivational quotes from famous authors
"He who has a "why" to live for can bear any "how"."
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
"A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life."
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
"Life is what happens to you while you're making other plans."
"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.'"
"Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."
"Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering."
"Where there is love there is life."
"I cannot make my days longer. So I strive to make them better."
"If you’ve never met the devil on the road of life, it's because you’re both heading in the same direction."
"A baby is God’s opinion that life should go on."
"If one day the speed kills me, do not cry because I was smiling."
"Death is the best invention of life."
"Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art."
"Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it."
"The man who views the world at 50 the same he did at 20 has wasted thirty years of his life."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen."
"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."
"Old age is just a record of one's whole life."
"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."
"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."