#Life Philosophy Quotes

“If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.”

“I don't measure my life by the money I've made. Other people might, but certainly don't.”

“Learning how to live is much more important than learning how to make a living.”

“No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.”

“Happiness can be reached by choice and how you look at life.”

“Sometimes you see these people who are just so—God—so affected by all of it, where ambition has taken precedence over happiness. But when I meet people who really embody this serenity of knowing that they have had an amazing life—James Taylor, Kris Kristofferson, and Ethel Kennedy... They just seem to be effervescent.”

“My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.”

“There are two things that I want you to make up your minds to: first, that you are going to have a good time as long as you live - I have no use for the sour-faced man - and next, that you are going to do something worthwhile, that you are going to work hard and do the things you set out to do.”

“One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.”

“A certain degree of physical harmony and comfort is necessary, but above a certain level it becomes a hindrance instead of a help. Therefore the ideal of creating an unlimited number of wants and satisfying them seems to be a delusion and a snare.”

“I don't like too much by-standing, on-looking, and spectator-behavior in people's lives.”

“She'd always believed that people come in two varieties: those who look out the windshield and those who stare in the rearview mirror. She'd always been the windshield type: gotta focus on the future, not the past, because that's the only part that's still up for grabs. Mom throws me out? Gotta get some food and find a place to live. Husband dies? Gotta keep working, or I'll end up going crazy. Got some guy stalking me? Gotta figure out a way to stop it.”

“I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment.”

“My rule is always, People first and things second.”

“I stay cool, and dig all jive, That's the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.”

“I think my whole life has been one of sort of daring, and sort of sailing against the wind instead of just going with the wind.”

“[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.”

“Sex, drugs, and insanity have always worked for me, but I wouldn't recommend them for everyone.”

“I had a very pleasant evening, however, though you will probably find out that there was no particular reason for it; but I do not think it worthwhile to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.”

“Now I don't get upset by unpleasant things, I don't play the victim, and I'm always ready to come to terms with life.”

“Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.”

“You are who you are meant to be. Dance as if no one's watching. Love as if it's all you know. Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.”

“Three rules: I do not eat too much; I do not worry too much; and, if I do my best, I believe that what happens, happens for the best.”

“Surround yourself with what you love.”

“I don't have hobbies; hobbies cost money. Interests are quite free.”

“If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, "I'm a free man in here" - he tapped his forehead - "and you're all right.”

“Happiness can exist only in acceptance.”

“The thing I know for sure is that at the end of my life, what I'm going to remember is the love I felt for my family and my friends, and whatever good I did for other people.”

“A positive attitude and a sense of humor go together like biscuits and gravy.”

“I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.”

“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.”

“I believe that the best way to prepare for a Future Life is to be kind, live one day at a time, and do the work you can do best, doing it as well as you can.”

“The secret of salvation is this: keep sweet, be useful, and keep busy.”

“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next. Find out who you are and do it on purpose.”

“I pray that I may never meddle, interfere, dictate, give advice that is not wanted, or assist when my services are not needed. If I can help people, I'll do it by giving them a chance to help themselves; and if I can uplift or inspire, let it be by example, inference and suggestion, rather than by injunction and dictation. That is to say, I desire to be Radiant -- to Radiate Life!”

“Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts.”

“The Master said, I set my heart on the Way, base myself on virtue, lean upon benevolence for support and take my recreation in the arts.”

“We should make the most of life, enjoy it because that's the way it is!”

“We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It's impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.”

“I am not a regret type person. I don't believe in regrets. Lots of things you would do differently if you'd do it again, but you don't do it again, so you don't think about it. But that goes for life in general. You're only dealing with the knowledge you have at that time.”

“Life is not a continuous process, there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life.”

“If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?”

“For me, life is about continuously being hungry. It's meaning is not simply to just exist or to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer. Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. We all have great power. That power is self-faith. There's really an attitude to winning. You have to see yourself winning before you win. And you have to be hungry. You have to want to conquer.”

“For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.”