These 60 powerful “you only live once” quotes will inspire you to think differently about how you approach each day. They challenge you to seize every moment and make the most of the opportunities that come your way.
You Only Live Once Quotes
- “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West
- “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 either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” — Helen Keller
- “Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” — Elbert Hubbard
- “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” — Oprah Winfrey
- “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” — Abraham Lincoln
- “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” — Napoleon Hill
- “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” — John Lennon
- “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” — Oscar Wilde
- “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” — H. Jackson Brown Jr.
- “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” — Mahatma Gandhi
- “It is not the length of life, but the depth of life.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Life is a one-time offer, use it well.” — Unknown
- “You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.” — Brian Tracy
- “Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.” — Wayne Dyer
- “To live will be an awfully big adventure.” — J.M. Barrie
- “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” — Anaïs Nin
- “We do not remember days, we remember moments.” — Cesare Pavese
- “Life is short, and it’s up to you to make it sweet.” — Sarah Louise Delany
- “Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” — Dr. Seuss
- “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” — Peter Drucker
- “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” — Virginia Woolf
- “Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” — Charles R. Swindoll
- “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” — Alan Watts
- “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” — Steve Jobs
- “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain.” — Vivian Greene
- “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” — Lao Tzu
- “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Life is too important to be taken seriously.” — Oscar Wilde
- “It’s not about how long you live, it’s about how well you live.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
- Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” — Maya Angelou
- “The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates
- “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” — Henry Stanley Haskins
- The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” — Mark Twain
- “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” — Albert Einstein
- “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” — Wayne Gretzky
- “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” — Theodore Roosevelt
- “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” — Vincent van Gogh
- “Life is short, break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly.” — Mark Twain
- “Every man dies. Not every man really lives.” — William Wallace
- We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” — Winston Churchill
- “Do one thing every day that scares you.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
- “What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?” — Vincent van Gogh
- “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” — George Bernard Shaw
- “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.” — Albert Schweitzer
- “Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.” — James Dean
- “A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are for.” — John A. Shedd
- “Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.” — Grace Hansen
- “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” — Jim Rohn
- “The only limits in life are the ones you make.” — Les Brown
- “Life is too short to be living somebody else’s dream.” — Hugh Hefner
- “Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.” — Vivian Komori
- “It’s never too late to be what you might have been.” — George Eliot
- “Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” — Robert Brault
- “Life is too short to wait.” — Unknown
- “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” — Theodore Roosevelt
- “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” — Albert Einstein
- Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” — Neale Donald Walsch
