Top 1081 Life Quotes

Life rarely goes according to plan, and that is exactly what makes it worth examining. These reflections on life touch on time, change, regret, and gratitude: perspective from people who paid attention to how their own stories unfolded.

It takes ten thousand hours to truly master anything. Time spent leads to experience; experience leads to proficiency; and the more proficient you are the more valuable you'll be.
Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell
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You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
John Bunyan
John Bunyan
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Medicine is the study of disease and what causes man to die. Chiropractic is the study of health and what causes man to live.
B.J. Palmer
B.J. Palmer
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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Anne Dillard
Anne Dillard
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Take pride in how far you've come. Have faith in how far you can go. But don't forget to enjoy the journey.
Michael Josephson
Michael Josephson
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Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that's the one that is going to require the most from you. Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?
Unknown
Unknown
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Big things are built one brick at a time. Victories are achieved one choice at a time. A life well lived is chosen one day at a time.
Lygo Tefkout
Lygo Tefkout
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Conquer your mind and conquer the world.
Guru Nanak
Guru Nanak
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack London
Jack London
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One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai
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You change the world by being yourself.
Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono
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It's my life and it's now or never.
Jon Bon Jovi
Jon Bon Jovi
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In life, it's not where you go, it's who you travel with.
Charles M. Schulz
Charles M. Schulz
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Literature exists because the world isn't enough.
Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa
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The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.
Frederick Buechner
Frederick Buechner
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I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand
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The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey
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You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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You need to be happy to live, I don't.
Keanu Reeves
Keanu Reeves
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All life is problem solving.
Karl Popper
Karl Popper
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Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human
conception for man's own advantage.
conception for man's own advantage.
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There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself.
Kyamata Huzashi
Kyamata Huzashi
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Enjoy the journey as much as the destination.
Marshall Sylver
Marshall Sylver
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
Ted Turner
Ted Turner
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I play each point like my life depends on it.
Rafael Nadal
Rafael Nadal
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Life will knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to stand back up.
Jackie Chan
Jackie Chan
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Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.
Gary Chapman
Gary Chapman
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In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.
Brennan Manning
Brennan Manning
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I don't judge poverty by wealth. The poor are those who cannot afford to pay attention in life.
Mewanandele Kindembo
Mewanandele Kindembo
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This is a software-powered world.
Satya Nadella
Satya Nadella
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If you think we can't change the world, It just means you're not one of those that will.
Jacque Fresco
Jacque Fresco
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We are forever indebted to those who have given their lives that we might be free.
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan
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Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
Charles R. Swindoll
Charles R. Swindoll
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The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life: and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
Unknown
Unknown
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Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Martin Luther
Martin Luther
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You are only one defining decision away from a totally different life!
Mark Batterson
Mark Batterson
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The art of life is to live in the present moment.
Emmet Fox
Emmet Fox
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Life is not fair, it never was, it isn't now, and it won't ever be. Do not fall into the trap of feeling like you're a victim. You are not.
Matthew McConaughey
Matthew McConaughey
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We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Inspirational Quotes
Inspirational Quotes
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Abbie Hoffman
Abbie Hoffman
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Walter Mitty: To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life.
James Thurber
James Thurber
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You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.
Napoleon Hill
Napoleon Hill
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Don't take life too seriously.
RuPaul
RuPaul
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World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.
Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
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Each night as you sleep I destroy the world.
Charles Manson
Charles Manson
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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
C.G.Jung
C.G.Jung
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The world, like a dream full of attachments and aversions seems real until the awakening.
Adi Shankara
Adi Shankara
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Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
Vernon Howard
Vernon Howard
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