Life Quotes

Life offers moments of wonder, challenge, and quiet in-between, and the right words can help us make sense of them. These life quotes invite reflection, spark courage, and offer gentle perspective when the path feels uncertain. Gathered from diverse voices and eras, they speak to growth, gratitude, resilience, and the simple joy of being present. Browse, linger, and let a line or two accompany your day, whether you are seeking clarity, comfort, or a fresh way to see.

"Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there"

Henry James, Writer

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"Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath"

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

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"Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

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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"

Sri Aurobindo, Philosopher

"It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice"

Jose Rizal, Writer

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"Business is the salt of life"

Voltaire, Writer

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"A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living"

Rudolf Steiner, Philosopher

"Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

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"We forge the chains we wear in life"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

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"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday"

John Wayne, Actor

"The purpose of life is a life of purpose"

Robert Byrne, Celebrity

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"If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough"

Meister Eckhart, Philosopher

"The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation"

Peter Marshall, Clergyman

"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living"

Cicero, Philosopher

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"As soon as there is life there is danger"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

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"My one regret in life is that I am not someone else"

Woody Allen, Director

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"We love death. The U.S. loves life. That is the difference between us two"

Osama bin Laden, Criminal

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"Life loves the liver of it"

Maya Angelou, Poet

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"There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

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"There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

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"Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid"

John Wayne, Actor

"There is more to life than increasing its speed"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

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"Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience"

John Stuart Mill, Philosopher

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"Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry"

Democritus, Philosopher

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"Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future"

William Wordsworth, Poet

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"Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy"

Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat

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"To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization"

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author

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"A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country"

Texas Guinan, Businessman

"If you don't have solid beliefs you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon"

Alfred A. Montapert, Philosopher

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"So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life"

Will Smith, Actor

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"This life of ours, this is a wonderful life. If you can get through life like this and get away with it, hey that's great. But it's very predictable. There's so many ways you can screw it up"

Paul Castellano, Criminal

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"Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

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"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time"

Mark Twain, Author

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"The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

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"The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love"

William Wordsworth, Poet

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"If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself"

Alexandre Dumas, Dramatist

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"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen"

Mark Twain, Author

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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, Athlete

"Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia"

Alexis Carrel, Scientist

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"The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation"

Corrie Ten Boom, Celebrity

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