Life Quotes

Fate is in your hands and no one elses

Life is a learning experience, only if you learn.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Everything in life is luck.

Once you choose hope, anythings possible.

The world is always in movement.

One faces the future with ones past.

Change in all things is sweet.

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

Only do what your heart tells you.

Life is movement-we breathe, we eat, we walk, we move!

Don't ruin the present with the ruined past.

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

From little acorns mighty oaks do grow.

Rainbows apologize for angry skies.

Each day provides its own gifts.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.

Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Loss is nothing else but change,and change is Natures delight.

Our strength grows out of our weaknesses.

No garden is without its weeds.

Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.

Life is just a chance to grow a soul.

Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Write your plans in pencil and give God the eraser.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

To enjoy life, we must touch much of it lightly.

To fly, we have to have resistance.

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

Life is a progress, and not a station.

All things change; nothing perishes.

Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.

Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrows good luck.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.

I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.

The worst bankrupt in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

I have done my best: that is about all the philosophy of living one needs.

Give thanks for the rain of life that propels us to reach new horizons.

The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place.

I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

Love and compassion open our own inner life, reducing stress, distrust and loneliness.

It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.

Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.

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

There is no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there is no end to it.

The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more

There is only one success — to be able to spend your life in your own way.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.

Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it.

We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

Sadness may be part of life but there is no need to let it dominate your entire life.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as ones own in the midst of abundance.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.

Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything hes got.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

By living deeply in the present moment we can understand the past better and we can prepare for a better future.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your reactions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize ones nature perfectly — that is what each of us is here for.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

Some people thrive on huge, dramatic change. Some people prefer the slow and steady route. Do what's right for you.

Arrogance and rudeness are training wheels on the bicycle of life — for weak people who cannot keep their balance without them.

The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

What matters is the value we've created in our lives, the people we've made happy and how much we've grown as people.

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

Responsibility is not inherited, it is a choice that everyone needs to make at some point in their life.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyse you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

You can't create in a vacuum. Life gives you the material and dreams can propel new beginnings.

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

The person who lives life fully, glowing with life's energy, is the person who lives a successful life.

All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Your outlook on life is a direct reflection on how much you like yourself.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

You can't trust without risk but neither can you live in a cocoon.

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be.

Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

Look forward to spring as a time when you can start to see what nature has to offer once again.

Happiness cannot be travelled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and…

Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That is why we call it the present.

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Fear of failure is one attitude that will keep you at the same point in your life.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our…

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention…

The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you…

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dream, and endeavours to live the life which he had imagines, he will meet with a success…

We must overcome the notion that we must be regular. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.

Love at first sight is easy to understand; its when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive — to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Although there may be tragedy in your life, there's always a possibility to triumph. It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The ability…

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Arriving at one point is the starting point to another.

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis.

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.

Each day can be one of triumph if you keep up your interests.

Life is what you make of it. Always has been, always will be.

It isn't where you come from, it's where you're going that counts.

Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.

Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.

Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.

The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment.

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

The time you think you're missing, misses you too.

Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by its breathtaking moments.

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.

Do what you can. Want what you have. Be who you are.

The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.

To ensure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.

Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.

To change ones life, start immediately, do it flamboyantly, no exceptions.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward…

Transformation does not start with some one else changing you; transformation is an inner self reworking of what you are now to what you will be.

Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path which nature has marked out for him.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; theres only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

The happy and efficient people in this world are those who accept trouble as a normal detail of human life and resolve to capitalize it when it comes…

Life a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of the future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity…

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

The most decisive actions of our life... are most often unconsidered actions.

The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which…

He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg.

Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.

Were here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world any more. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a…

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing…

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Our passion is our strength.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

Spring is a time for rebirth and the fulfilment of new life.

There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the…

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but by the heart.

Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind.

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

I love my past. I love my present. Im not ashamed of what Ive had, and Im not sad because I have it no longer.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.

Live through feeling and you will live through love. For feeling is the language of the soul, and feeling is truth.

I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life.

Time you enjoyed wasting was not wasted.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

If we look at the world with a love of life, the world will reveal its beauty to us.

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for…

If someone in your life talked to you the way you talk to yourself, you would have left them long ago.

The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.

A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.

One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that ones life has meaning, that one…

Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know…

Spirituality can be severed from both vicious sectarianism and thoughtless banalities. Spirituality, I have come to see, is nothing less than the…

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast — you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose.

To know your purpose is to live a life of direction, and in that direction is found peace and tranquillity.

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith.

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with…

Into each life rain must fall but rain can be the giver of life and it is all in your attitude that makes rain produce sunshine.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.

We're all just walking each other home.

Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life and yet less attached to it.

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

If you resist change, you resist life.

Learning to listen is the essence of intelligent living.

The sign of intelligence is that you are always wondering. Idiots are always sure about everything they are doing in their life.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up.

We are all connected; to each other, biologically; to the earth, chemically; to the rest of the universe, atomically.

There's no Planet B.

The natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the…

I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.

If we take care of nature, nature will take care of us.

When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn't plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world's first…

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

There are no second acts in American lives.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of…

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

When I am dead, my dearest, sing no sad songs for me.

I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.

I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.

I too have a tongue in my mouth. If only you would ask what I have to say.

Who will look after this house now? Every day, something or the other breaks.

I am convinced my mother always spoke the truth — in the days of my childhood, fairies used to live in the moon.

My existence is like a bubble; all this display is but a mirage.

A body of clay, a mind brimming with joy, a life of one fleeting moment — that is my introduction.

What has passed is a chapter closed; what is gone is gone.

I am a cloud filled with the water of sorrow.

Burn on, sweetly, sweetly, O my little lamp.

If this kadamba tree, Mother, stood on the banks of the Yamuna, I too would sit upon it and slowly become Kanhaiya.

No more supplication — now there shall be war: victory in life, or death.

If you carry a restlessness in your heart as you walk, then you are truly alive.

I do not like going where everyone goes; I do not like travelling the well-trodden road.

Everywhere, in every place, there are countless people — and yet man remains a victim of loneliness.

I am not angry with you, O life; I am only bewildered by you.

The moment that is coming is about to slip away; if you can, live a whole lifetime within this passing moment.

We have a little, and a little is all we need; life, somehow, carries on.

My name will be lost, this face will change; my voice alone is my identity.

The purpose of literature is the criticism of life.

What a wretched custom — the man who could not get even a rag to cover his body while alive must be given a new shroud when he is dead.

Dying is not so easy, Parvati — not so easy at all.

Traveller, have you lost your way?

Stay a while, O traveller, if you were born in Bengal — rest a brief moment at this grave.

You too, my child?

I will be good.

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights', with all its…

I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words.

Stay hungry. Stay foolish.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life.

Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive.

The real power of money is the power to give it away.

I strongly believe that those of us who are privileged to have wealth should contribute significantly to try and create a better world for the…

My life between 22 yards for 24 years; it is hard to believe that that wonderful journey has come to an end.

Enjoy the game and chase your dreams. Dreams do come true.

I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to play music.

I made mistakes and I paid for them, but the ball is never stained.

Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet.

I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?

I sell dreams and peddle love to millions of people.

Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.

Change is the nature of life but challenge is the aim of life. So you have to challenge the changes, not change the challenges.

Everyone must accept that we will age and age is not always flattering.

My fans are my God.

Let us not take this planet for granted. I do not take tonight for granted.

If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.

Everybody has gone through something that has changed them in a way that they could never go back to the person they once were.

A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or…

The most important thing is to enjoy your life — to be happy — it's all that matters.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Custom is the great guide of human life.

When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.

Saare Jahan Se Achha.