Top 65+ Best Life Quotes iN English

Life quotes are short thoughts that speak to the many life stories, much like pearls of wisdom hanging in the great width of human experience.

Life quotes become guiding lights through the maze of difficulties and pleasures of living, where each person crafts a unique tapestry of experiences and feelings.

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1;Zhuangzi Quotes

• “Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.”
  
  
• “I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?”
  
  
• “For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.”
  
  
• “Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.”
  
  
• “We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.”
  
  
• “I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.”
  
  
• “Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.”
  
  
• “Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.”
  
  
• “I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.”
  
  
• “All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.”
  
  
• “Those who realize their folly are not true fools.”
  
  
• “Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.”
  
  
• “Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can have a word with him?”
  
  
• “Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.”
  
  
• “Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.”
  
  
• “Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.”
  
  
• “Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.”
  
  

2;William Osler Quotes

• “We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.”
  
  
• “We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.”
  
  
• “The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today’s work superbly well.”
  
  
• “Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. “
  
  
  There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.”
  
  
• “Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.”
  
  
• “To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals – this alone is worth the struggle.”
  
  
• “One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.”
  
  
• “The teacher’s life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.”
  
  
• “No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.”
  
  
• “Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought. William Osler The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.”
  
  
• “There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.”
  
  
• “The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.”
  
  
• “In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.”
  
  
• “The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.”
  
  
• “The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.”
  

3;William Hazlitt Quotes

• “The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.”
  
  
• “The more we do, the more we can do.”
  
  
• “Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.”
• “Prejudice is the child of ignorance.”
  
  
• “Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people’s weaknesses.”
  
  
• “No truly great person ever thought themselves so.”
  
  
• “The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right. William Hazlitt The busier we are the more leisure we have.”
  
  
• “Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.”
  
  
• “The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.”
  
  
• “Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.”
  
  
• “There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.”
  
  
• “The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of – the last he does not concern himself about.”
  
  
• “To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.”
  
  
• “Learning is its own exceeding great reward.”
  
  
• “As is our confidence, so is our capacity.”
  
  
• “Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.”
  
  
• “Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.”
  
  
• “Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.”
  
  
• “Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.”
  
  
• “There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.”
  
  
• “The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.”
  

4;Vincent Van Gogh Quotes

• “For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.”
  
  
• “It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”
  
  
• “I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
  
  
• “Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.”
  
  
• “…and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
  
  
• “There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”
  
  
• “A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke”
  
  
• “I don’t know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.”
  
  
• “Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.”
  
  
• “If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”
  
  
• “I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.”
  
  
• “I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.”
  
  
• “What am I in the eyes of most people — a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person — somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then — even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart. That is my ambition, based less on resentment than on love in spite of everything, based more on a feeling of serenity than on passion. Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum.”
  
  
• “Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.”
  
  
• “The sadness will last forever.”
  
  
• “What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
  
  
• “I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.”
  
  
• “The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.”
  
  
• “If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.”
  
  
• “Art is to console those who are broken by life.”
  
  
• “If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”
  
  
• “I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.”
  
  
• “Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.”
  
  
• “I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say ‘he feels deeply, he feels tenderly’.”
  
  
• “I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.”
  
  
• “It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.”
  
  
• “At present I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. It often seems to me that night is still more richly coloured than the day; having hues of the most intense violets, blues and greens. If only you pay attention to it you will see that certain stars are lemon-yellow, others pink or a green, blue and forget-me-not brilliance. And without my expatiating on this theme it is obvious that putting little white dots on the blue-black is not enough to paint a starry sky.”
  
  
• “I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.”
  
  
• “The heart of man is very much the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too”
  
  
• “The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.”
  
  
• “It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.”

5;Wayne Dyer Quotes

• “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
  
  
• You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.
  
  
• Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.
  
  
• The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.
  
  
• Change the way you see things and the things you see will change.
  
  
• If you don’t make peace with your past, it will keep showing up in your present.
  
  
• If you believe it will work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you believe it won’t, you will see obstacles.
  
  
• The only limits you have are the limits you believe.
  
  
• Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.
  
  
• You will see it, when you believe.
  
  
• You are important enough to ask, and you are blessed enough to receive back.
  
  
• Don’t die with your music still in you.
  
  
• My goal is not to be better than anyone else, but to be better than I used to be.
  
  
• Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.
  
  
• Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.
  
  
• Heaven is a state of mind, not a location, since spirit is everywhere and in everything.
  
  
• Judgments prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.
  
  
• Let the world know why you’re here, and do it with passion.
  
  
• The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind.
  
  
• Never underestimate your power to change.
  
  
• There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
  
  
• I would rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I’m not.
  
  
• Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.
  
  
• I am thankful to all those who said no. It’s because of them, I did it myself.
  
  
• How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
  
  
• When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
  
  
• Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves.
  
  
• It’s easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change.
  
  
• If you don’t make peace with your past, it will keep showing up in your present.
  
  
• When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out, because that’s what’s inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

6;Vince Lombardi Quotes

• “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.”
  
  
• “Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.”
  
  
• “I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious.”
  
  
• “We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.”
  
  
• “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.”
  
  
• The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
  
  
• Winners never quit and quitters never win.
  
  
• Show me a good loser, and I’ll show you a loser.
  
  
• Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
  
  
• It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
  
  
• Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

7;Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

• “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

• “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”
  
  
• “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
  
  
• “The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.”
  
  
• “When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.”
  
  
• “People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.”
  
  
• “Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.”
  
  
• “I am a part of everything that I have read.”
  
  
• “Knowing what’s right doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.”
  
  
• “Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”
  
  
• “To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
  
  
• “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.”
  
  
• “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”
  
  
• “Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.”
  
  
• “A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.”
  
  
• “Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
  
  
• “Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”
  
  
• “When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.”
  
  
• “It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.”
  
  
• “People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.”
  
  
• “Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”
  
  
• “Let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.”
  
  
• “Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

 8;Drew Barrymore Quotes

• “I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.”
  
  
• “Kissing – and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing – is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down.”

• “If you don’t take risks, you’ll have a wasted soul.”
  
  
• “I’m not insecure. I’ve been through way too much f**king sh*t to be insecure. I’ve got huge balls. But I’ve been humbled. That makes you grateful for every day you have.”
  
  
• “There’s something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.”
  
  
• “When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That’s when I feel beautiful.”
  
  
• “Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!”
  
  
• “I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.”
  
  
• “You can never, never have too many books”
  
  
• “I am fundamentally happy. Everyone has experiences that makes them cynical, jaded or unhappy – you just have to fight those things off. I have totally emotional days when I cry and get insecure. PMS weirded out, doomed and tragic. I mean, I’m definitely not just a lollipop, happy in the wind girl. I’m human just like everyone else, but I think that it would be tragic to be on your deathbed and think, ‘I could’ve I should’ve.’ That gets me out of bed everyday. I can’t even last like an hour in bed in the morning. I have to get out there and live.”
  
  
• “When things are perfect, that’s when you need to worry most.”
  
  
• “A fish may love a bird, but where would they live? Then I shall build you wings.”
  
  
• “If you are going to go through hell…I suggest you come back learning something.”
  
  
• “God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for me? My limbs work, so I’m not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.”
  
  
• “You know you’re putting a good thing out into the universe when you put on glitter.”
  
  
• “People are like moths. First they are ugly and awkward, until they break out of their shell and become a beautiful butterfly.”
  
  
• “Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.”
  
  
• “Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.”
  
  
• “The older you get, the fewer slumber parties there are, and I hate that. I liked slumber parties. What happened to them?”
  
  
• “I don’t want to be stinky poo-poo girl, I want to be happy flower child.”
  
  
• “Don’t show your flaws. ”
  
  
• “Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.”