Life - Quotes & Sayings

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Helen Hayes

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

O. Henry

The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.

Benjamin E. Mays

I tell people that life is like a book. Sometimes you've just got to turn the chapter. Even if you don't understand it, turn the chapter and move away from it. You don't know all the good things that are ahead of you yet.

Danny Gokey

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Mark Twain

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carver

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

Joseph Campbell

Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.

Rose Kennedy

Life is too short to spend in negativity. So I have made a conscious effort to not be where I don't want to be.

Hugh Dillon

Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Ernest Hemingway

I'm really looking forward to seeing what life brings to me.

Rihanna

Art is the proper task of life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

Shania Twain

Hiding, secrets, and not being able to be yourself is one of the worst things ever for a person. It gives you low self-esteem. You never get to reach that peak in your life. You should always be able to be yourself and be proud of yourself.

Grace Jones

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Dalai Lama

Mentors provide professional networks, outlets for frustration, college and career counseling, general life advice, and most importantly, an extra voice telling a student they are smart enough and capable enough to cross the stage at graduation and land their first paycheck from a career pathway job.

Gerald Chertavian

My normal life is like being on holiday.

Valentino Rossi

Things never go the way you expect them to. That's both the joy and frustration in life. I'm finding as I get older that I don't mind, though. It's the surprises that tickle me the most, the things you don't see coming.

Michael Stuhlbarg

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Soren Kierkegaard

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

Leo Tolstoy

I feel like I'm really blessed and lucky that I have a very good social life outside of the gym, and I have a really amazing family. My parents are so supportive. I have a younger brother and two younger sisters, and they're really awesome. So I feel like I get the best of both worlds.

Aly Raisman

Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.

L. Ron Hubbard

Nobody's life is ever all balanced. It's a conscious decision to choose your priorities every day.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck

The purpose of life is to help others, and if you can't help them, won't you at least not hurt them? I know that is a platitude, that that is sentimental and can easily be attacked. But loving, caring is simple, and we make it complex. Our own neuroses make it complex.

Leo Buscaglia

Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.

Kevyn Aucoin

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you want to do really important things in life and big things in life, you can't do anything by yourself. And your best teams are your friends and your siblings.

Deepak Chopra

Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

I think there should be a good balance between being a good student and being able to enjoy your high school life.

Vanessa Minnillo

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Henry David Thoreau

Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

Jack Kerouac

Weight loss can change your whole character. That always amazed me: Shedding pounds does change your personality. It changes your philosophy of life because you recognize that you are capable of using your mind to change your body.

Jean Nidetch

I enjoy life when things are happening. I don't care if it's good things or bad things. That means you're alive.

Joan Rivers

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

You learn to rise above a lot of bad things that happen in your life. And you have to keep going.

Lauren Bacall

Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.

Swami Sivananda

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Albert Einstein

I am hopeful that one day I will meet that right man and will have a very happy life partner.

Lara Giddings

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

Havelock Ellis

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

Marcus Aurelius

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Mark Twain

Looking back at my life's voyage, I can only say that it has been a golden trip.

Ginger Rogers

If a child, a spouse, a life partner, or a parent depends on you and your income, you need life insurance.

Suze Orman

I do smoke in real life. A lot. We're all smoking right now in fact.

Michael Imperioli

One thing I've learned is when you find a best friend in this life, you better hang on.

Jim Nabors