This collection has expanded from an initial 38 to a remarkable 156 wise quotes about life. Each quote in this compilation offers a unique blend of wisdom, presenting rare insights and valuable life lessons through succinct yet powerful phrases. As you delve into these sayings, you’ll discover a selection of diverse experiences and wisdom drawn from various walks of life. This collection hopes to broaden your perspective, equipping you with a wealth of wisdom to guide you in your own life journey.
156 Wise Quotes About Life
- “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost
- “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” – Buddha
- “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon
- It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” – J.K. Rowling
- “It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
- The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” – Dolly Parton
- “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss
- “To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.” – Emily Dickinson
- “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anaïs Nin
- “The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.” – Gustave Flaubert
- “Life is either a great adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller
- “Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.” – George Washington
- “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
- “Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman
- “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
- “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
- “Life is short, and it’s up to you to make it sweet.” – Sarah Louise Delany
- “The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
- “In order to write about life first you must live it.” – Ernest Hemingway
- “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality.” – Lao Tzu
- “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” – Albert Einstein
- “The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.” – Bertrand Russell
- “Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life.” – John Wooden
- “My life is my message.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Life is a question and how we live it is our answer.” – Gary Keller
- “The healthiest response to life is joy.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get.” – Forrest Gump, movie character
- “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale
- “May you live all the days of your life.” – Jonathan Swift
- “Life is a journey, not a destination.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Life is short, break the rules. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that made you smile.” – Mark Twain
- “Life is too important to be taken seriously.” – Oscar Wilde
- “Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” – Charles Swindoll
- “The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.” – Frank Sinatra
- “The only disability in life is a bad attitude.” – Scott Hamilton
- “Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
- “We’re all born with a completely blank canvas, and your life paints that canvas.” – Billie Eilish
- “Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.” – Ernest Holmes
- “Life is really generous to those who pursue their personal legend.” – Paulo Coelho
- “Life is a game and true love is a trophy.” – Rufus Wainwright
- Don’t count the days, make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali
- “Life’s too mysterious to take too serious.” – Mary Engelbreit
- “If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” – Bruce Lee
- “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.” – Jack London
- “Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you react to it.” – Charles Swindoll
- “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” – Dalai Lama
- “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” – Allen Saunders
- “Get busy living or get busy dying.” – Stephen King
- “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Mae West
- “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas A. Edison
- “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
- “Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.” – Seneca
- “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
- “Life is trying things to see if they work.” – Ray Bradbury
- “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” – Jim Rohn
- “Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.” – Lillian Dickson
- “Life is a series of baby steps.” – Hoda Kotb
- “The art of life is to live in the present moment.” – Emmet Fox
- “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
- “Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Life is about making an impact, not making an income.” – Kevin Kruse
- “The greatest pleasure of life is love.” – Euripides
- “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
- “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.” – Jack London
- “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.” – Tom Clancy
- “Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.” – Corita Kent
- “The most wasted of days is one without laughter.” – E. E. Cummings
- “The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.” – Robert F. Kennedy
- “Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.” – D. H. Lawrence
- “Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.” – Charles Dickens
- “Life is a journey that has a lot of different paths, but any path you choose use it as your destiny.” – Ryan Leonard
- “Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
- “The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
- “Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.” – Margaret Mitchell
- “Live in the present and make it beautiful.” – Eileen Hutchison
- “To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone.” – Reba McEntire
- “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow.” – Lao Tzu
- “Life is a gift, given in trust – like a child.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- “The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.” – William James
- “Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever.” – Peter Hagerty
- “The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.” – H.T. Leslie
- “The biggest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” – Elbert Hubbard
- “Life is a flower of which love is the honey.” – Jean Baptiste Alphonse Karr
- “Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
- “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Life is short, but it is wide. This too shall pass.” – Rebecca Wells
- “Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.” – Martin H. Fischer
- “Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.” – Charlie Chaplin
- “Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.” – Danny Kaye
- “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain.” – Vivian Greene
- “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” – Helen Keller
- “Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.” – Oscar Wilde
- “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates
- “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius
- “Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.” – Sholom Aleichem
- “Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” – Elbert Hubbard
- Our life is what our thoughts make it.” – Marcus Aurelius
- “Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll
- “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” – Mark Twain
- “Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.” – Sarah Louise Delany
- “Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.” – Stephen Hawking
- “Life is a long lesson in humility.” – James M. Barrie
- “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon
- “Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.” – Woody Allen
- “Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.” – José Ortega y Gasset
- “Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.” – Vivian Komori
- “Life is short, and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
- “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” – Søren Kierkegaard
- “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” – Maya Angelou
- “Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” – Khalil Gibran
- “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin
- “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates
- “The purpose of life is a life of purpose.” – Robert Byrne
- “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde
- “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow.” – Lao Tzu
- “Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
- “Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.” – Voltaire
- “Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being.” – Kevin Kruse
- “The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.” – Tara Brach
- “Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” – John W. Gardner
- “Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.” – Denis Waitley
- “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” – Allen Saunders
- “Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.” – Corita Kent
- “When you think about how time is passing, think about how you can use what is passing with time. You can’t stop time but you can use or misuse what is passing with time” – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- “The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.” – Walter Bagehot
- “Life is a series of peaks and valleys. Sometimes you’re up, sometimes you’re down.” – Ken Griffey Jr.
- “Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
- “Life isn’t about finding pieces of a puzzle. It’s about creating and putting those pieces together.” – Glen Van Dekken
- “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” – Vicki Corona
- “Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.” – Samuel Butler
- “Life is a flower of which love is the honey.” – Victor Hugo
- “Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.” – Oliver Goldsmith
- “Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.” – Vivian Greene
- “Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.” – Grandma Moses
- “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius
- “The mind is everything. What you think you become.” – Buddha
- “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” – Søren Kierkegaard
- “Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll
- “Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.” – Jose Ortega y Gasset
- “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.” – Marcus Aurelius
- “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll
- “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?'” – Martin Luther King Jr.
- “Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.” – Danny Kaye
- “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” – Tony Robbins
- “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau
