Life Quotes – 110 Inspiring Mottos and Sayings About Life

Are you looking for effective life sayings and inspirational quotes about life? Then you've come to the right place! From birth to death, our life is a multifaceted journey with many ups and downs, surprises and habits, great joys and painful blows of fate. Leitmotifs and life mottos can provide clarity on this adventure and serve as an inspiring guide.

In this article, I would therefore like to give you a collection of the best, short pieces of wisdom, aphorisms and quotes for all phases and areas of life. Let's go!

You can find a brief overview here in advance

• Birth and childhood
• Personality and character
• Health and well-being
• Dreams and self-realization
• Home and family
• Love and friendship
• Education and experience
• Nature and garden
• Motivation and success
• Calm and serenity
• Death and memories

My please: Keep in mind that many of the quotes about life have been translated into English from other languages. I cannot guarantee that it is the original quote in each case. Therefore, double check them before you share them. If you like and share any of the quotes in the internet, please link this elaborately created collection. Thank you for your support!

Life Quotes: The 110 best sayings about life

Slogans, mottos and leitmotifs can be, for example funny, beautiful, supportive, motivating or inspiring and (not only in the form of a tattoo) even get under your skin.

For me personally, the following famous words of wisdom are therefore more than just words. They are wonderful companionsthat can give us support and help us to master life and better understand the world around us.

Life sayings about birth and childhood

1. "The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." (Mark Twain)
2. "Joy of life - children have it, adults can find it again." (Volker Murawski)
3. "One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood." (Agatha Christie)
4. "Children at play are joys come to life." (Christian Friedrich Hebbel)
5. "The life of parents is the book their children read." (Saint Augustine)
6. "In youth we learn; in age we understand." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
7. "On the play of a child, you can guess how it will take his life's mission." (Rudolf Steiner)
8. "Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death." (Arthur Schopenhauer)
9. "I was not born to share the hate, but love." (Sophocles)
10. "The first task of an educator must be to stimulate life and then leave it free to develop and unfold." (Maria Montessori)

Life sayings about personality and attitude

11. "The biggest decision in life is about changing your life through changing your mind." (Albert Schweitzer)
12. "The courage for self-awareness reveals the strength of character." (Ernst Ferstl)
13. "Pay attention to the small things in the world, that makes life richer and more satisfying." (Carl Hilty)
14. "We can't change the wind, but we can set the sails differently." (Aristotle)
15. "Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life." (Mark Twain)
16. "To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance." (Oscar Wilde)
17. "Every time you smile, your life gains time." (Dalai Lama)
18. "Revoke a wrong view requires more character than to defend it." (Arthur Schopenhauer)
19. "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." (Albert Einstein)
20. "The greatest pleasure in life is doing something that other people think you can't do." (Walter Bagehot)

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Life sayings about health and well-being

21. "The most precious things in life are not those you get for money." (Albert Einstein)
22. "Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
23. "Health is not everything, but without health, everything is nothing." (Arthur Schopenhauer)
24. "Nothing in the world is as contagious as laughter and good humor." (Charles Dickens)
25. "The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." (Marcus Aurelius)
26. "Health is the first duty in life." (Oscar Wilde)
27. "All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it." (Samuel Butler)
28. "Do something good for your body, so that your soul wants to live in it." (Teresa of Ávila)
29. "The true art of living consists in seeing the miraculous in the everyday." (Pearl S. Buck)
30. "I've decided to be happy because it's good for my health." (Voltaire)

Life sayings about dreams and self-realization

31. "It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting." (Paulo Coelho)
32. "Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
33. "It is a full life even if there are many unfulfilled desires." (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
34. "Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live." (Mark Twain)
35. "Life is a sum of all your choices." (Albert Camus)
36. "Be the change you wish to see in the world." (Mahatma Gandhi)
37. "All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." (Walt Disney)
38. "A journey is a drink from the fountain of life." (Christian Friedrich Hebbel)
39. "What we do today will determine what the world looks like tomorrow." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
40. "The meaning of life is to give life meaning." (Viktor E. Frankl)

Tip: The main purpose of life sayings is to inspire positive change in your life. How you can realize all your dreams I will be happy to explain in the linked blog post.

Life sayings about love and friendship

41. "The sum of our life is the sum of hours in which we have loved." (Wilhelm Busch)
42. "In the end it is always our connections with people that make our lives worth living." (Wilhelm von Humboldt)
43. "For the world you are someone, but for someone you are the world." (Erich Fried)
44. "The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words." (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
45. "Where love grows, life flourishes - where hate arises, doom threatens." (Mahatma Gandhi)
46. "Those whom we support hold us up in life." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
47. "A true friend is discerned during an uncertain matter." (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
48. “Animals are my friends and I don't eat my friends." (George Bernard Shaw)
49. "The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe." (Albert Einstein)
50. "No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of it for another." (Charles Dickens)

Life sayings about education and experience

51. "By words we learn thoughts, and by thoughts we learn life." (Jean Baptiste Girard)
52. "Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world." (Nelson Mandela)
53. "Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley)
54. "All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes." (Winston Churchill)
55. "If life is the highest good, education is the key to the highest good." (Ernst von Feuchtersleben)
56. "Human life is a constant school." (Gottfried Keller)
57. "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." (Søren Kierkegaard)
58. "Experience remains life's master." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
59. "Education is not limited to school. It continues relentlessly until the end of life." (Peter Ustinov)
60. "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." (Confucius)

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Life sayings about nature and the garden

61. "We are living in dangerous times. Men control nature before they are even able to control themselves." (Albert Schweitzer)
62. "If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need." (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
63. "Earth is not only our common heritage, it is also the source of life." (Dalai Lama)
64. "There are always flowers for those who want to see them." (Henri Matisse)
65. "Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
66. "Anything that is against nature will not last in the long run." (Charles Darwin)
67. "Nature does nothing in vain." (Aristotle)
68. "Life begins the day you start a garden." (Chinese proverb)
69. "Nature never deceives us. It is always we who deceive ourselves." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
70. "The goal of life is living in agreement with nature." (Zeno of Ele)

Life sayings about motivation and success

71. "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." (Thomas Alva Edison)
72. "The greatest glory in life is not in never falling, but in getting back up every time." (Nelson Mandela)
73. "Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
74. "The important thing is not to stop questioning." (Albert Einstein)
75. "What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?" (Vincent van Gogh)
76. "The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new." (Socrates)
77. "You get a head start in life if you tackle where others talk first." (John F. Kennedy)
78. "Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts." (Albert Einstein)
79. "Any difficult situation you overcome now will be saved for you in the future." (Dalai Lama)
80. "Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value." (Albert Einstein)

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Life sayings about happiness and serenity

81. "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood." (Marie Curie)
82. "Calmness is the graceful form of confidence." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
83. "If you want to live in peace with yourself, you have to accept yourself as you are." (Selma Lagerlöf)
84. "Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive." (Elbert Hubbard)
85. "Life begins where fear ends." (Osho)
86. "You must realize that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand and will not let you fall." (Rainer Maria Rilke)
87. "The biggest mistake you can make in your life is to be always afraid of making a mistake." (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
88. "When we have joy in life, the moments of happiness come by themselves." (Ernst Ferstl)
89. "He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
90. "Serenity takes life seriously, but not hard." (Ernst Reinhardt)

Life sayings about death and memories

101. "The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind." (Albert Schweitzer)
102. "Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back." (Marcus Aurelius)
103. "The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal." (Cícero)
104. "It is not the length of life, but the depth of life. He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
105. "The meaning of life is that it ends." (Franz Kafka)
106. "Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light." (Franz Grillparzer)
107. "Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist." (Guy De Maupassant)
108. "You live twice: once in reality, the second time, in memories." (Honoré de Balzac)
109. "Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." (Isaac Asimov)
110. "It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live." (Marcus Aurelius)

Can you think of any other sayings about life that are not yet on this list? Then always come up with your ideas in the comments column.

What important life questions, should you ask yourself?

Important life questions serve to get to know yourself better and to grow personally from the answers. They usually relate to our inner identity, values, fears and legacy.

Here are five questions you could ask yourself, for example:

• Who am I and who do I want to be?
• What does it mean for me personally to be successful?
• What values are important to me and do I already live by them?
• How do I want to be remembered after my death?
• What would I do if I were filthy rich?

How do I get more zest for life again?

Above all, you will get your zest for life back, when you change something in your life and once again or finally actively do the things that bring you joy. For example, meet up with your friends on a regular basis and consciously take time for yourself. So also make sure you rest and relax.

What do we need to live?

We humans fundamentally need Food, water, air, clothing, safety and sleep for a healthy life. But to really live and not just survive, love, joy, fulfillment and a purpose in life are also essential - in other words, things that make us happy.

Maslow's pyramid of needs provides further information. There, in Basic needs (water, sleep), Security requirements (housing, health), Social needs (Love, Friends), Individual needs (reputation, independence) and the need of the Self-realization distinguished.

The best life sayings and quotes about life as a constant source of inspiration

Life is a precious gift full of opportunities. Every day offers you a new chance to take bold steps, cultivate wonderful connections with others and create meaningful moments that you will always remember fondly. You are the author:in your own life story - write it the way you like it, but always be open to the idea of others writing it too.

Finally, I would like to give you a few further articles that can change your life for the better:

• Going vegan - the best tips for getting started
• Zero waste lifestyle - what is it actually?
• Helping people - what you can do for others
• Minimalist living - it's that simple

Do you have any questions, suggestions or a particular favorite quote that inspires you to enjoy life? Then I look forward to your comment!

Stay cheerful,

PS: There are so many wonderful positive traits. Selfishness is definitely not one of them and will close many doors for you in the course of your life. Instead, why it is unbelievably will do good to help other peopleI will now explain in the linked article.