Life Quotes

Charles Darwin Quote: A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
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As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Marie Curie

Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die, Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly, Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams go, Life is a barren field, Frozen with snow.

Langston Hughes

I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they do their lives.

Jim Rohn

All experiences of life seem to prove that the impediments thrown in the way of human advancement may, for the most part, be overcome by steady good conduct, honest zeal, activity, perseverance and above all, by a determined resolution to surmount.

Samuel Smiles

Adventure is the essence of life.

Dick Rutan

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

Sean O'Casey

Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching. and live like it's heaven on earth.

Mark Twain

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

Mark Twain

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

D. H. Lawrence

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.

Jim Carrey

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

David Carradine

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Emily Dickinson

Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.

Grace Hansen

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Joseph Addison

A life that does not go into action is a failure.

Arnold Toynbee

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child’s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself.

Louis L’amour

Live dangerously and you live right.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.

Ashley Smith

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

Life is a pure flame,
and we live by an invisible sun within us.

Sir Thomas Brown

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. 

John Dryden

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

Richard Bach

There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death. Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer; and, concerning life, we forget to live it.

Jean de La Bruyère

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao Tzu

Your time is limited so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Steve Jobs

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn't it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked -- as I am surprisingly often -- why I bother to get up in the mornings.

Richard Dawkins

About all you can do in life is be who you are.

Rita Mae Brown

Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine... Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery.

Buddha

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