Life Quotes, Sayings, and Thoughts

Find the greatest life quotes and thoughts on life - from Gandhi, Mother Theresa, Winston Churchill, the Buddha, and others. We've distilled these from literally hundreds of quotes we've found.

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Cherokee Saying about Life:

"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice."

~ Cherokee Expression

George Eliot Life Quote:

"It is never too late to become what you might have been."

~ George Eliot

Albert Einstein Life Quotation:

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is. "

~ Albert Einstein

Alexander Woollcott Life Quotation:

"There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day."

~ Alexander Woollcott

Helen Keller Thoughts on Life:

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. "

~ Helen Keller

Harold Whitman Thought on Life:

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

~ Harold Whitman

William James Life Quote:

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

~ William James

Montaigne Life Saying:

"My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened."

~ Montaigne

Annie Dillard Life Quotation:

"The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives."

~ Annie Dillard

Winston Churchill Life Quotation:

"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."

~ Winston Churchill

Mohandas Gandhi Life Quote:

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

~ Mohandas Gandhi

Ursula K. Le Guin Life Quotation:

"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Kevin Welch Saying About Life:

"There'll be two dates on your tombstone And all your friends will read 'em But all that's gonna matter is that little dash between 'em. "

~ Kevin Welch

Thoughts on Life from the Buddha:

"Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it. "

~ The Buddha

Dawna Markova Saying on Life:

"I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which comes to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which comes to me as blossom, goes on as fruit."

~ Dawna Markova

Josh Billings Life Quote:

"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."

~ Josh Billings

Jonathan Swift Saying about Life:

"May you live all the days of your life."

~ Jonathan Swift

Abraham Lincoln Life Quote:

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

~ Abraham Lincoln

 

 

Mother Teresa's Thoughts on Life:

"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it."

~ Mother Teresa

Stephen Covey Life Quote:

"We are not human beings on a spiritual journey.
We are spiritual beings on a human journey."

~ Stephen Covey