Best quotes about life

1. “Not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do is the

secret of happiness.” —J.M. Barrie (August 1933)

2. “My father gave me the best advice of my life. He said,

‘Whatever you do, don’t wake up at 65 years old and think

about what you should have done with your life.'” —George

Clooney (July 2006)

3. “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 good for wallowing.” —Katherine

Mansfield (April 1941)

4. “I’d rather regret the risks that didn’t work out than the

chances I didn’t take at all.” —Simone Biles (July/August

2020)

5. “If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it! “—Jonathan

Winters (June 1990)

6. “A pessimist is one who makes difficulties out of his

opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities

out of his difficulties.” —Robert Mansell (August 1933)

7. “My father used to say, ‘Don’t raise your voice. Improve your

argument.'” —Archbishop Desmond Tutu (January 2008)

8. “What on earth would a man do with himself if something

did not stand in his way?” —H.G. Wells (June 1940)

9. “‘Don’t worry’ makes a better motto when you add

‘others.'” —Columbia Record (May 1925)

10. “When you are actually powerful, you don’t need to be

petty.” —Jon Stewart (February 2014)

11. “None are so brave as the anonymous.” —K.K. Steincke

(June 1957)
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12. “To be without some of the things you want is an

indispensable part of happiness.” —Bertrand

Russell (December 1950)

13. “Nobody ever sees his own face in the glass. What he

observes there is a compound, divided into three parts: one

part himself as he really is, one part representing what he

expects to see, and a third part, what he wishes to

behold.” —Richard Burton (June 1940)

14. “You are only young once. After that you have to think up

some other excuse.” —Billy Arthur (April 1955)

15. “No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.” —Will

Durant (January 1941)

16. “They always say time changes things, but you actually

have to change them yourself.” —Andy Warhol (April 2020)

17. “Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the

probable reason why so few engage in it.” —Henry Ford (June

1922)

18. “Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching

them with your hands. But, like the seafaring men on the

desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and

following them reach your destiny.” —Carl Schurz (April 1941)

19. “The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady

and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a

whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.” —Mark

Twain (May 1941)

20. “It’s not necessary to take a person’s advice to make him

feel good—all you have to do is ask it.” —Richard

Armour (January 1952)

21. “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside

us—and sometimes, they win.” —Stephen King (February

2014)
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22. “The best bridge between despair and hope is a good

night’s sleep.” —Harry Ruby (June 1952)

23. “The older you get the more you realize that kindness is

synonymous with happiness.” —Lionel Barrymore (April 1953)

24. “Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in

length.” —Robert Frost (March 1959)

25. “Constant use will wear out anything—especially friends.”

—Warren Hull (December 1957)

26. “Don’t say you can’t until you prove you can’t.” —Les

Paul (June 1957)

27. “Life is what happens to us while we are making other

plans.” —Allen Saunders (January 1957)

28. “Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do

with what happens to you.” —Aldous Huxley (March 1956)

29. “You are genuinely happy if you don’t know why.” —

Joseph Mayer (March 1956)

30. “Worry is like sand in an oyster: a little produces a pearl,

too much kills the animal.” —Marcelene Cox (December 1955)

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31. “People who complain that they don’t get all they deserve

should congratulate themselves.” —The Irish Times (October

1955)
32. “I have this rule I live by: Only do what you can do. That

means you’re never looking outside for what’s popular; you’re

always looking inside for what’s true.” —Delia

Ephron (February 2014)

33. “The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do

a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without

comment.” —T.H. White (October 1955)

34. “Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow; it only saps

today of its strength.” —A.J. Cronin (April 1955)

35. “Schedule all your worrying for a specific half-hour about

the middle of the day. Then take a nap during this period.” —

Peterborough, Ont., Examiner (March 1955)

36. “One good way to test your memory is to try to remember

the things that worried you yesterday.” —Toronto

Star (October 1954)

37. “If there is one thing I would teach a child, above all else, it

is to be able to imagine himself into the flesh of other people:

to realize his mother’s weariness, his father’s anxieties, his

little brother’s lonely fears, and to give of himself generously

to ease their burdens. A child who has learned to be

consistently generous will become a generous adult, much

loved and therefore truly successful.” —I.A.R. Wylie (June

1954)

38. “There’s no better exercise for strengthening the heart

than reaching down and lifting people up.” —Woman’s

Home Companion (May 1954)

39. “A party without a cake is really just a meeting.” —Julia

Child (June 2020)

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40. “Kindness is one thing you can’t give away. It always

comes back.” —George Skolsky (April 1954)

41. “Nothing bad can happen if you haven’t hit the ‘send’ key.”

—David Shipley and Will Schwalbe (January 2008)

42. “Morale is when your hands and feet keep on working

when your head says it can’t be done.” —Ben

Morcell (January 1961)

43. “Humor plays close to the big, hot fire which is Truth.” —

E.B. White (January 1990)

44. “You’re never too broken to be fixed.” —Jonathan Van

Ness (June 2020)

45. “Greed is envy with its sleeves rolled up.” —George F.

Will (February 1990)

46. “Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but

small ones surround us every day.” —Sally Koch (January

1995)

47. “Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you

begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter

what.” —Harper Lee (October 1989)

48. “The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually

fearing that you’ll make one.” —Elbert Hubbard (January

1953)
49. “Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent

than the one that went before it and wiser than the one that

comes after it.” —George Orwell (August 1989)

50. “We give them the love we can spare, the time we can

spare. In return, dogs have given us their absolute all. It is

without a doubt the best deal man has ever made.” —Roger

Caras (August 1989)

51. “The world is not yours for the taking, but for the trying.

Try hard.” —Scott Galloway (June 2020)

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52. “Intelligence is when you spot the flaw in your boss’s

reasoning. Wisdom is when you refrain from pointing it out.”

—James Dent (April 1989)

53. “Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious

learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really

the work of childhood.” —Fred Rogers (aka “Mr.

Rogers”) (November 1987)

54. “The most sincere compliment we can pay is attention.”

—Walter Anderson (October 1987)

55. “I still close my eyes and go home—I can always draw

from that.” —Dolly Parton (August 2008)

56. “Hating people is like burning down your own house to

get rid of a rat.” —Harry Emerson Fosdick (May 1929)

57. “The most important trip you may take in life is meeting

people halfway.” —Henry Boye (January 1997)

58. “Never let a problem to be solved become more

important than a person to be loved.” —Barbara

Johnson (January 1997)

59. “Never fear shadows. They simply mean there’s a light

shining nearby.” —Ruth E. Renkel (February 1997)

60. “The world is extremely interesting to a joyful soul.” —

Alexandra Stoddard (March 1997)

61. “No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.”

—David Eddings (May 1997)

62. “The best way to keep children at home is to make the

home atmosphere pleasant—and let the air out of the tires.”

—Dorothy Parker (August 2008)

63. “Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error

that counts.” — Nikki Giovanni (April 1998)

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64. “Let us endeavor so to live, that when we come to die,

even the undertaker will be sorry.” —Mark Twain (June 1933)

65. “What a strange world this would be if we all had the

same sense of humor.” —Bern Williams (August 1997)

66. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” —Peter

F. Drucker (September 1997)

67. “A problem is a chance for you to do your best.” —Duke

Ellington (October 1984)

68. “The most important thing that parents can teach their

children is how to get along without them.” —Frank

Clark (July 1984)

69. “What I do today is important because I am exchanging a

day of my life for it.” —Hugh Mulligan (October 1981)

70. “If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch, you

must first invent the universe.” —Carl Sagan (July 1981)

71. “You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up

again.” —Bonnie Prudden (December 1980)

72. “We spend the first part of our human experience avidly

accumulating things and the other half wondering what in

the world we’re going to do with all the stuff.” —Margret E.

Keatts (September 1980)

73. “There is only one certainty in life and that is that nothing

is certain.” —G.K. Chesterton (June 1926)

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74. “The narrower the mind the broader the statement.” —

Ted Cook (February 1940)

75. “You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know

how soon it will be too late.” —Ralph Waldo

Emerson (September 1974)

76. “The squeaky wheel may get the most oil, but it’s also the

first to be replaced.” —Marilyn vos Savant (May 2001)

77. “Just be good and kind to your children. Not only are they

the future of the world, they’re the ones who can sign you

into a home.” —Dennis Miller (Reader’s Digest Laughter. the

Best Medicine II, 2006)

78. “Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what

makes the ride worthwhile.” —Franklin P. Jones (September

1977)

79. “Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.”

—African proverb (September 1977)

80. “It is useless to try to hold a person to anything he says

while he’s madly in love, drunk, or running for office.” —B.

Birdsong (November 1972)

81. “Temptation usually comes in by a door that has been

deliberately left open.” —Arnold Glasow (January 2007)

82. “Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be

anybody.” —Malcolm S. Forbes (November 1972)

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83. “Whatever your lot in life, build something on it.” —Home

Life (November 1972)

84. “Patience often gets the credit that belongs to fatigue.” —

Franklin P. Jones (October 1979)

85. “Memories are everyone’s second chance at happiness.”

—Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (October

1979)

86. “Every exit is an entry somewhere else.” —Tom

Stoppard (July 2000)

87. “You only have to do a very few things right in your life—

so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.” —Warren

Buffett (Reader’s Digest Quotable Quotes, 2013)

88. “If you can give your child only one gift, let it be

enthusiasm.” —Bruce Barton (December 1934)

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89. “Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has

never been erected in honor of a critic.” —Jean

Sibelius (October 1979)

90. “Accept that some days you’re the pigeon, and some days

you’re the statue.” —Roger C. Andersen (June 1996)

91. “The best index to a person’s character is (a) how he treats

people who can’t do him any good, and (b) how he treats

people who can’t fight back.” —Abigail Van Buren (August

1980)

92. “Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do

and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.” —Gen.

George S. Patton, Jr. (August 1980)

93. “If you want children to improve, let them overhear the

nice things you say about them to others.” —Dr. Haim

Ginott (January 1970)

94. “To err is human; to refrain from laughing, humane.” —

Lane Olinghouse (January 1970)

95. “To err is human, to forgive, canine.” —Lynn

Johnston (October 1996)

96. “One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a

good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.” —Will

Durant (November 1972)

97. “I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded

by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could

comprehend it.” —Harry Emerson Fosdick (July 1970)

98. “As long as the world is turning, we’re going to be dizzy.”

—Mel Brooks (January 2008)

99. “I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself

than to be crowded on a velvet cushion.” —Henry David

Thoreau (January 1941)

100. “It’s a whole lot more satisfying to reach for the stars,

even if you end up landing only on the moon.” —Kermit the

Frog (January 2007)

101. “Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.” —Lincoln

Steffens (February 1965)

102. “A gossip is a person who creates the smoke in which

other people assume there’s fire.”—Dan Bennett (January

1970)

103. “Having a young child explain something exciting he has

seen is the finest example of communication you will ever

hear or see.” —Bob Talbert (July 1970)

104. “Living is the art of getting used to what we didn’t

expect.” —Eleanor C. Wood (July 1970)

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105. “Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you.

Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.” —Alice

Walker (June 1992)

106. “Don’t spend any time whatsoever thinking about what

might have been.” —Alex Trebek (May 2021)

107. “Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.” —Jon

Bon Jovi (Reader’s Digest Quotable Quotes, 2013)

108. “Celebrate what you’ve accomplished, but raise the bar a

little higher each time you succeed.” —Mia Hamm (Reader’s

Digest Quotable Quotes, 2013)

109. “Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.” —Erica

Jong (January 2008)

110. “Amateurs wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up

and go to work.” —Chuck Close (August 2007)

111. “You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?” —

Steven Wright (December 1984)