Important Life Quotes:

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

- Morrie Schwartz

topic: Love, Life, Nature, Free Love, Lovers Love

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Interesting Life, Inner Voice

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

- Oscar Wilde

source: "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Live Life To Its Fullest, Soul Man

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Mans Search For Meaning, Live To The Fullest

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Life Going On, Inspirational Motivational Images

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Interesting Life, Make Up Your Mind

The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.

- Audrey Hepburn

topic: Life, Happiness, Being Happy, Joy Of Living, Just Be Happy

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

- Havelock Ellis

source: Havelock Ellis (1973). “Affirmations”, Milford House Publishing Company

topic: Life, Moving On, Letting Go, Life Going On, Just Living Life

Whatever anybody says, the most important thing in life is to be happy.

- Orhan Pamuk

topic: Important, Life Is, Inspirational Romance, Lady Love, Love Is Life

The unexamined life is not worth living.

- Socrates

topic: Inspirational Life, Life Is, Unexamined Life, Inner Life, Journey Of Self Discovery

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Funny, Life, Inspiring, Makin Money, Inspirational Money Making

My family's the most important thing in my life.

- Joe Namath

topic: Important, My Family, Complicated World, Family Time, Inspirational Family

I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.

- Barbara Bush

topic: Family, Thinking, Important, Family Time, Inspirational Family Love

Life is very fleeting. It’s important to be gentle and optimistic. We look behind and think what we’ve done in this life has been good. It was simple; it was modest. Everyone creates their own story and moves on. That’s it. I don’t feel particularly important. What we create is not important. We’re very insignificant.

- Oscar Niemeyer

source: "Why Oscar Niemeyer is king of curves" by Tom Dyckhoff, www.thetimes.co.uk. December 12, 2007.

topic: Important Life

When I think of all the things that tossed my journey off its track, I realize something incredibly important: Life's setbacks only changed my path and the timing of my arrival. They never changed my destination.

- John Foley

topic: Journey, Thinking, Track, Arrivals, Important Life

We don't let a car company just throw out a car and start driving it around without checking that the wheels are fastened on. We know that would result in death; but for some reason we have no hesitation at throwing out some algorithms untested and unmonitored even when they're making very important life-and-death decisions.

- Cathy O'Neil

source: Source: www.salon.com

topic: Car, Life And Death, Decision, Important Life

It is very difficult to make really big, important, life-changing decisions because we are all susceptible to a formidable array of decision biases. There are more of them than we realize, and they come to visit us more often than we like to admit.

- Dan Ariely

topic: Life Changing, Decision, Important, Important Life

The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.

- Eric Hoffer

topic: Country, Numbers, People, Individual Achievement, Important Life

Education does loads of things for girls that wont surprise you at all - it provides self-esteem, teaches important life skills, and offers the kinds of choices a good education can give anyone.

- Richard E. Robbins

topic: Girl, Self Esteem, Skills, Life Skills, Important Life

I will do whatever I have to do to reach people with the things I believe are important. Life is too short not to do everything you can.

- Jeanette Winterson

topic: Believe, Life Is Too Short, People, Important Life

I want to lead an important life. I want to do it because I was born a human being.

- Eiji Yoshikawa

source: Eiji Yoshikawa (1981). “Musashi”, HarperCollins Publishers

topic: Important, Want, Born, Important Life

I believe that the long-term future of the human race must be space and that it represents an important life insurance for our future survival, as it could prevent the disappearance of humanity by colonizing other planets.

- Stephen Hawking

source: "'Colonize planets to save the human race' – Professor Stephen Hawking", www.rt.com. February 20, 2015.

topic: Believe, Race, Space, Disappearance, Important Life

Seriously, a thirty-something woman shouldn't be daydreaming about a fictional character in a two-hundred-year-old world to the point where it interfered with her very real and much more important life and relationships. Of course she shouldn't.

- Shannon Hale

source: Shannon Hale (2013). “Austenland: A Novel”, p.9, A&C Black

topic: Real, Character, Years, Fictional Character, Important Life

I'm albino, my family is white, but I was really raised, and taught my important life lessons, by the black community.

- Brother Ali

source: Interview with David Brusie, music.avclub.com. April 26, 2007.

topic: Life Lesson, White, Community, Important Life, Important Life Lessons

'Marley' does what is probably the best possible job of documenting an important life.

- Roger Ebert

source: Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.379, Andrews McMeel Publishing

topic: Jobs, Important, Doe, Important Life