Good Quotes about Life!



76 great life quotes!

Good Quotes about Life!

~ The course of life is unpredictable... no one can write his autobiography in advance.
Abraham Heschel (1907-1972) Polish-born U.S. rabbi, leading Jewish theologian, philosopher

~ Life, of course, should be fun; yet, without fulfillment fun fleeces and pleasure depletes.
Joel Bryant, contemporary African-American Christian life coach

~ Life is very marvellous... and to the wonders of the earth there is no end appointed.
James Branch Cabell (1879-1958) U.S. author

~ What is life? It’s the flash of a firefly in the night, it’s the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.
Crowfoot (c.1830-1890) Canadian aboriginal chief of the Siksika First Nation

~ The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all.
Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969) U.S. Baptist minister

~ A dreamy web of thoughts, remote from life and full of wishes and judgments about how things "ought to be," prevents all contact with life.
Marie Louise von Franz (1915-1998) German-born Swiss Jungian psychologist

~ You cannot judge a man's life by the success of a moment, by the victory of an hour, or even by the results of a year. You must view his life as a whole.
William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) U.S. lawyer, statesman, peace advocate

Good Quotes about Life: Attitude

~ The ideal man bears the accidents of life
With dignity and grace, the best of circumstances.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, politician

~ I think it's important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery, and of your own mystery.
Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) U.S. mythologist, writer, lecturer

~ If God is the DJ, then Life is the dance floor; Love is the rhythm, and You are the music.
Pink (born 1979) U.S. singer-songwriter, musician, acrobat

~ Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James (1842-1910) U.S. philosopher, psychologist, mystic

~ Now it is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) English playwright, novelist, short-story writer

~ I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
Coco Chanel (1883-1971) French pioneering haute-couture fashion designer

~ When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
Helen Keller (1880-1968) U.S. deaf-blind author, political activist, lecturer

~ Now that we know what we know, there is so much more we need to know... life is truly a journey and a blessing.
Paul Signorino, contemporary U.S. surgeon

~ The great marvel of being alive is that one does have the right to ask questions and be audacious in the questions.
Duane Michals (born 1932) U.S. self-taught photographic artist

~ Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.
Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969) U.S. Baptist minister

~ Our expectations is what creates our greatest misery and unhappiness in life; our expectations of ourselves and others.
Patrick Wanis, contemporary Australian US-based life coach, human behaviour/relationship expert, clinical hypnotherapist

See everything as a miracle

~ There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though there are no miracles. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-born Jewish physicist, genius

~ I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969) U.S. Baptist minister

Long Good Quotes about Life: Attitude

~ I enjoy life because I am endlessly interested in people and their growth. My interest leads me to widen my knowledge of people, and this in turn compels me to believe in the common goodness of mankind.
Pearl Buck (1892-1973) U.S. humanitarian, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer

~ Suspend your assumptions about what we call reality so that we can become pioneers in a land where youthful vigour, renewal, creativity, joy, fulfillment and timelessness are the common experience of everyday life.
Deepak Chopra M.D. (born 1947) Indian-born U.S.-based physician, metaphysican, author

Really Long Good Quotes about Life: Attitude

~ Life is a creative endeavour. It is active, not passive. We are the yeast that leavens our lives into rich, fully baked loaves. When we experience our lives as flat and lacklustre, it is our consciousness that is at fault. We hold the inner key that turns our lives from thankless to fruitful. That key is "Blessing."
Julia Cameron (born 1948) U.S. poet, playwright, filmmaker, teacher, author, artist

~ Everything in life is miraculous. For the sigil* taught me that it rests within the power of each of us to awaken at will from a dragging nightmare of life made up of unimportant tasks and tedious useless little habits, to see life as it really is, and to rejoice in its exquisite wonderfulness. (* a magical sign or image)
James Branch Cabell (1879-1958) U.S. author

Good Quotes about Life: Democracy

~ The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
Jane Addams (1860-1935) U.S. social worker, feminist, first woman awarded Nobel Peace Prize

~ It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms it puts forth.
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) U.S. architect, interior designer, writer, educator

~ There are certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled. Among these are many, I should say most, of the things that constitute the good life. All are essential to democracy. All are proof against its enemies.
Alfred Whitney Griswold (1906-1963) U.S. historian, educator

Good Quotes about Life: Giving Back

~ In life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out.
Paul Newman (1925-2008) U.S. actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian

~ In every part and corner of our life, to lose one’s self is to be the gainer; to forget one’s self is to be happy.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish novelist, poet

~ Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Anthony Robbins (born 1960) U.S. self-help author, motivational speaker

~ You live on past this life in the acts of goodness, empowerment and wisdom that you performed while you are here. Each act counts.
Blair Singer, contemporary U.S. success coach/author

Good Quotes about Life: Growth

~ Nothing in life just happens. You have to have the stamina to meet the obstacles and overcome them.
Golda Meir (1898-1978) Russian-born 4th Prime Minister of Israel

~ A life without appreciation, a life without self-improvement, is death. Self-improvement itself is a strength.
Yukichi Yagi (1898-1927) Japanese poet

~ Our lives improve only when we take chances—and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Walter Anderson (details unknown)

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Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969) U.S. Baptist minister

Good Quotes about Life: Individuality

~ You can’t go through life bowing your head and accepting what someone in supposed authority tells you. That’s being an automaton.
Duane Michals (born 1932) U.S. self-taught photographic artist

~ I suppose every child has a world of his own—and every man, too, for the matter of that. I wonder if that's the cause for all the misunderstanding there is in Life?
Lewis Carroll, pen name of Charles Dodgson (1832-1898) English author of Alice in Wonderland , mathematician, logician, inventor

Good Quotes about Life: Learning

~ All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
James Thurber (1894-1961) U.S. author, cartoonist, humorist

~ Life can be real rough… you can either learn from your problems, or keep repeating them over and over.
Marie Osmond (born 1959) U.S. actress, singer, doll designer

~ What is important is to try and learn to live, and in relation to everything—not isolated. This isolation is death to me.
Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) New Zealand-born English short-story writer

~ Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.
Dr. David M. Burns (details unknown)

~ Warm, eager, living life—to be rooted in life—to learn, to desire to know, to feel, to think, to act. That is what I want. And nothing less.
Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) New Zealand-born English short-story writer

~ My philosophy is that life is all about learning and growing, and that life can be a real adventure of learning, growing, compassion, and joyfulness.
John Mackey (details unknown)

~ The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.
Manly P. Hall (1901-1990) Canadian mystic, author

Good Quotes about Life: Living in the Present

~ Life lives; and in the living flow, no questions are raised. The reason is that life is a living now!
Bruce Lee (1940-1973) Chinese-American actor, martial artist, filmmaker

~ Don't let the current of the past dictate the direction of the present moment. Have you own life right now.
Guy Finley (born 1949) U.S. self-help writer, philosopher, spiritual teacher

~ A life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
Alan Lightman (born 1948) U.S. novelist, essayist, physicist, educator

~ You don’t get to choose how you are going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you are going to live. Now.
Joan Baez (born 1941) U.S. folk singer, songwriter, activist

~ It’s only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on Earth—and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up—that we begin to live each day.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (1926-2004) Swiss-born U.S. psychiatrist, death-and-dying writer, teacher

Long Good Quotes about Life: Living in the Present

~ You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) U.S. author, poet, naturalist, surveyor, historian, philosopher, Transcendentalist

Good Quotes about Life: Optimism

~ In a world of lunacy
Violence, stupidity, greed… it is a good life.
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) U.S.-born British poet, playwright, literary critic, publisher

~ Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) English playwright, novelist, short-story writer

Good Quotes about Life: Out of the Ordinary

~ The burdens imposed by ordinary life are lifted the moment we want nothing more to do with ordinary life.
D.P. Gates, contemporary U.S. entrepreneur

~ You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world.
Paramhansa Yogananda (1893-1952) Indian yogi, meditation guru

Good Quotes about Life: Passion

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D.P. Gates, contemporary U.S. entrepreneur

~ If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) U.S. mythologist, writer, lecturer

~ If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you.
T. Alan Armstrong (details unknown)

Good Quotes about Life: Purpose

~ Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
Rebecca West (1892-1983) pen name of Cicely Isabel Fairfield, English author, journalist, intellectual

~ To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish novelist, poet

~ The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French Renaissance philosopher, humanist, author

~ We should be less concerned about adding years to life, and more about adding life to years.
Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) English science-fiction author, inventor, futurist

~ Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.
Lewis Carroll, pen name of Charles Dodgson (1832-1898) English author of Alice in Wonderland , mathematician, logician, inventor

~ The purpose of being human is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere existence.
Alexandra Innes (born 1952) Brit-Canadian author, poet, YummyQuotes.com owner

~ Each of us must seek to discover the particular theme or motif that will characterize our life.
Daisaku Ikeda (born 1928) Japanese philosopher, Buddhist leader, author, poet, pacifist

~ The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a pattern of systems.
Bruce Lee (1940-1973) Chinese-American actor, martial artist, filmmaker

~ Having lofty ideals and a clearly defined purpose, and then putting them into practice in daily life—this is what it means to live with true clarity of vision.
Tsunesaburo Makiguchi (1871-1944) Japanese humanistic educator, author, philosopher, Buddhist leader/martyr

~ Remind me each day of the fable “the hare and the tortoise” that I may know that the race is not always to the swift; that there is more to life than increasing its speed.
Wilfred A. Peterson (1900-1995) U.S. inspirational writer

Long Good Quotes about Life: Purpose

~ If we can look beyond the diverse distractions of daily life—the noisy surface of an information society that appeals only to people’s nerve endings—we will discover an innate capacity to appreciate genuine reality, to hear the heartbeat of that which is truly worth living for.
Daisaku Ikeda (born 1928) Japanese philosopher, Buddhist leader, author, poet, pacifist

Good Quotes about Life: Quality of Life

~ The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
Anthony Robbins (born 1960) U.S. self-help author, motivational speaker

~ We should spend this present moment in such a way that benefits both ourselves and the world, This is the only fruitful way of living.
Amma (born 1953) Hindu spiritual leader, teacher, humanitarian

Good Quotes about Life: Responsibility

~ You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Erica Jong (born 1942) U.S. author, teacher

Good Quotes about Life: Will

~ The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French Renaissance philosopher, humanist, author

~ The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French Renaissance philosopher, humanist, author

Good Quotes about Life: Wisdom

~ One of the truths of life is that you can only get something from someone who has it.
Terry Cole-Whittaker (born 1940) U.S. author, spiritual teacher

~ When life does not find a singer to sing her heart, she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) Lebanese-American artist, poet, author

~ Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Lin Yutang (1895-1976) Chinese writer, inventor

~ Life cannot be administered by definite rules and regulations; that wisdom to deal with a man’s difficulties comes only through some knowledge of his life and habits as a whole.
Jane Addams (1860-1935) U.S. social worker, feminist, first woman awarded Nobel Peace Prize

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