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.

Some people come into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never ever the same.
Flavia Weedn
Flavia Weedn
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You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
Christopher J. Nolan
Christopher J. Nolan
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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
Sholem Aleichem
Sholem Aleichem
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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast – you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
Eddie Cantor
Eddie Cantor
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Be crazy. Be stupid. Be silly. Be weird. Be whatever. Because life is too short to be anything but happy.
Hilda Koth
Hilda Koth
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Stop breaking your own heart by exaggerating your place in other people's lives.
Joy Manne
Joy Manne
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We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn't have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness.
Pete Stromsky
Pete Stromsky
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Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way.
Tom Preston
Tom Preston
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Without music, life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it. Wishing you a great journey.
Josephine Cruzado
Josephine Cruzado
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It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.
Mickey Mantle
Mickey Mantle
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A good friend is a connection to life – a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
Lori Way
Lori Way
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Your words are building blocks of which you construct your life and future.
Charles Garpe
Charles Garpe
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Baby, we have no choice of what color we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here.
Helen D. Taylor
Helen D. Taylor
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You must leave this world a better place than it would have been if you had not existed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Whatever your income, always live below your means.
Thoreau Stanley
Thoreau Stanley
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The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life.
Paul Morphy
Paul Morphy
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Take life step by step, pace by pace, slowly slowly, and leave the competition to others.
Eddie Redmayne
Eddie Redmayne
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It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way.
Warren Ellis
Warren Ellis
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No expectations. No disappointments. My life motto.
Lauren Asher
Lauren Asher
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You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.
Anne Hathaway
Anne Hathaway
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Two things to remember in life: take care of your thoughts when you are alone, and take are of your words when you are with people.
Lorde
Lorde
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As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.
Vin Scully
Vin Scully
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Life isn't burger king. You can't always have it your way.
Dr Sukhwinder Dhillon
Dr Sukhwinder Dhillon
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Everybody deserves to have something good in their life. At least once.
Morris Gleitzman
Morris Gleitzman
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We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.
Jack Gilbert
Jack Gilbert
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It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life's story will develop.
Danier F. Uchtdorf
Danier F. Uchtdorf
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I was born to be champion of the world.
Roberto Duran
Roberto Duran
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The most temptation I'd experienced had been with Tomas, the Senate's spy who had been feeding off me without permission, and Mircea, who was probably plotting some nefarious scheme. I have no taste in men.
Kerrelyn Sparks
Kerrelyn Sparks
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Your long-term happiness and fulfillment depend on your ability to fulfill your soul's unique purpose and to fill the place in the world that only you can fill, making the contribution that only you can make.
Rod Stryker
Rod Stryker
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I believe destiny and hard work go hand in hand.
Priyanka Chopra
Priyanka Chopra
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Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?
Rumi
Rumi
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Life ends so fast, so take your chance, and make it last.
Chuck Schuldiner
Chuck Schuldiner
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The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.
Eliot W. Eisner
Eliot W. Eisner
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Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause. He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.
Richard Francis Burton
Richard Francis Burton
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I don't pay attention to the world ending. It has ended for me many times and began again in the morning.
Naomi Shihab Nye
Naomi Shihab Nye
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Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint.
Charles Péguy
Charles Péguy
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You're not hardcore, unless you live hardcore.
Jack Black
Jack Black
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Economy without ecology means managing the human nature relationship without knowing the delicate balance between humankind and the natural world.
Sarah Duncan
Sarah Duncan
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It is your duty in life to save your dream.
Amedeo Modigliani
Amedeo Modigliani
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We're changing the world with technology.
Bill Gates
Bill Gates
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Life is a verb, not a noun.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Dream big, stay positive, work hard, and enjoy the journey.
Brian Robson
Brian Robson
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Life's too short to sit around and wait.
Stephanie Gilmore
Stephanie Gilmore
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Delayed gratification is the one thing we ignore these days. And if you delay it, it becomes more pleasurable later in life.
Greg Gutfeld
Greg Gutfeld
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Never stop learning and adapting. The world will always be changing. If you limit yourself to what you knew and what you were comfortable with earlier in your life, you will grow increasingly frustrated with your surroundings as you age.
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs
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We are all born to die - the difference is the intensity with which we choose to live.
Gina Lollabrigida
Gina Lollabrigida
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One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.
Luciano Pavarotti
Luciano Pavarotti
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