Life Quotes and Sayings

We make our fortunes, and we call them fate.
Earl of Beaconsfield

Your personal philosophy is the greatest determining factor in how your life works out.

Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass…
it’s learning to dance in the rain.

Whatever life has given to you, never complain.

It is always more than you deserve. Always be grateful.

Flops are a part of life’s menu and I’ve never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Rosalind Russell

Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but by how we react to what happens, not by what life brings to us, but by the attitude we bring to life.
Anon

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
G. K. Chesterton

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Storm Jameson

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
Josephus Daniels

How soon ‘not now’ becomes ‘never’.

Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.
James M. Barrie

Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.
Bernice Johnson Reagon

Begin with the ending in mind.
Stephen Covey

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
Richard M. DeVos

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.
Bertrand Russell

Be what you wanna be, not what others wanna see.
Unknown

Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
Unknown

Our life’s a stage, a comedy: either learn to play and take it lightly, or bear its troubles patiently
Palladas

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, “I used everything you gave me.
Erma Bombeck

Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly then men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure.
Henry David Thoreau

If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers.
Bo Bennett

You can feel the stars and the infinity of the sky since life, in spite of everything, is like a dream.
Unknown

Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Sarah Bernhardt

I look at life as a gift of God. Now that he wants it back I have no right to complain.
Joyce Cary

You can achieve anything you want in life if you have the courage to dream it, the intelligence to make a realistic
plan, and the will to see that plan through to the end.
Sidney A. Friedman