199 Top-Notch Quotes about Life

"You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need."

Vernon Linwood Howard (March 16, 1918 - August 23, 1992) was an American spiritual teacher, author, and philosopher.


"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."

Robert Eugene Byrne (born April 20, 1928 in New York City) is a leading American chess player, a Grandmaster, and a chess author. He won the U.S. Championship in 1972, and was a World Chess Championship Candidate in 1974.


"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these."

George Washington Carver (January 1864 – January 5, 1943) was an American scientist, botanist, educator, and inventor. The exact day and year of his birth are unknown; he is believed to have been born before slavery was abolished in Missouri in January 1864.


"He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt."

Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 – December 12, 1999) was an American satirical novelist, short story writer and playwright. He wrote the influential novel Catch-22 about American servicemen during World War.


"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."

Lucius Annaeus Seneca often known simply as Seneca, or Seneca the Younger (c. 3 BC – 65 AD) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He was tutor and later advisor to emperor Nero. He was later forced to commit suicide for complicity in the Pisonian conspiracy to assassinate this last of the Julio-Claudian emperors; however, he may have been innocent.


"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police."

Jeff Marder (-) comedian


"Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments."

Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald Kennedy (July 22, 1890 – January 22, 1995) was the wife of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., and de mother of nine children, among them United States President John F. Kennedy, United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and United States Senator Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy.


"Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it."

Samuel Butler (Dec. 4, 1835, Nottinghamshire - June 18,1902, London) British novelist, essayist, and critic. Descended from distinguished clergymen, he grappled for many years with Christianity and evolution, first embracing, then rejecting, Charles Darwin's theories in his writings.


"A striking cultural difference between Dutch and Portuguese is that Dutch eat to live while Portuguese live to eat."

Joana F.M.F. Cardoso (-)


"When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about."

Elias Canetti (25 July 1905 – 14 August 1994) was a Bulgarian modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer. He wrote in German and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981.