Famous writers have always had a way with words that make us pause and think about life. Here are the top 99 quotes from famous writers on life:
1. “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
2. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost
3. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” – Steve Jobs
4. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” – Søren Kierkegaard
5. “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” – Dalai Lama
6. “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.” – Allen Saunders
7. “We do not remember days, we remember moments.” – Cesare Pavese
8. “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey
9. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
10. “The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.” – Audrey Hepburn
11. “Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever.” – Peter Hagerty
12. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates
13. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Mae West
14. “Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll
15. “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
16. “The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination.” – Carl Rogers
17. “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” – Søren Kierkegaard
18. “Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
19. “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.” – John Green
20. “Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.” – Ernest Holmes
21. “Don’t wait for the perfect moment, take the moment and make it perfect.” – Zoey Sayward
22. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anaïs Nin
23. “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
24. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius
25. “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” – Edmund Burke
26. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
27. “The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.” – Robert F. Kennedy
28. “Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass…It’s about learning how to dance in the rain.” – Vivian Greene
29. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
30. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
31. “Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.” – Irving Berlin
32. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
33. “Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.” – Charlie Chaplin
34. “The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.” – Jordan Belfort
35. “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” – Helen Keller
36. “The mind is everything. What you think you become.” – Buddha
37. “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
38. “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
39. “Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever.” – Peter Hagerty
40. “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
41. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
42. “Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.” – Tony Robbins
43. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
44. “The only thing we know for sure is that we know nothing at all.” – Socrates
45. “If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything.” – Malcolm X
46. “Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.” – Grandma Moses
47. “Life is like a camera. Focus on the good times, develop from the negatives, and if things don’t work out, take another shot.” – Unknown
48. “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
49. “The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” – Helen Keller
50. “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” – C.S. Lewis
51. “Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever.” – Peter Hagerty
52. “Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll
53. “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” – Edmund Burke
54. “Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.” – Osho
55. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
56. “Life is a journey, not a destination.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
57. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
58. “Life is a combination of magic and pasta.” – Federico Fellini
59. “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” – Helen Keller
60. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” – Steve Jobs
61. “Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever.” – Peter Hagerty
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