Great Life Quotes

“Adventure is important in life. Making memories matters. It doesn't have to be a secret sea plane and an historic sports moment. But to have a great life, you need great memories. Grab any intriguing offer. Say yes to a challenge, and to the unknown. Be creative in adding drama and scope to your own life. Work at it, like a job. Money from effort comes and goes. But effort from imagination and following adventure creates stories that you keep forever. And anyone can do it.”

— Rob Lowe

“A great life starts within”

— Malka Maxwell

“You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else; only you're unexplained as yet
you've not got your niche in creation. But some day that will come, and meanwhile don't shrink from yourself, but face yourself calmly and bravely. Have courage; do the best you can with your burden. But above all be honourable. Cling to your honour for the sake of those others who share the same burden. For their sakes show the world that people like you and they can be quite as selfless and fine as the rest of mankind. Let your life go to prove this
it would be a really great life-work, Stephen.”

— Radclyffe Hall

“For each of us, then, the challenge and opportunity is to cherish all life as the gift it is, envision it whole, seek to know it truly, and undertake -with our minds, hearts, and hands- to restore its abundance. It is said that where there's life there's hope, and so no place can inspire us with more hopefulness than that great, life-making sea -that singular, wondrous ocean covering the blue planet.”

— Carl Safina

“It's a great life if you don't weaken”

— John Buchanan

“If you want a great life try being kind.”

— Bryant McGill

“You want a great life? Well, greatness is on the other side of that f***ing wall ... don't just go over it, go through it! What are you waiting for?”

— Steve Maraboli

“Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.”

— Brad Henry

“I had to let someone know who I was: not merely Simon's assistant, his chronicler, his poor scribbling friend, but the great love of a great life. That I may have lived in his shadow, but I was always by his side. That I was as needful to him as air.”

— K.J. Charles

“You can encounter the great life within you when you recover the zero point. When you encounter that great life, all limits created by the thoughts and emotions vanish and infinite creativity springs forth.”

— Ilchi Lee

“I've got a great life. It's a shame the work gets in the way of the golf, really.”

— Len Goodman

“I get e-mails from mothers asking me to call their daughters for a date. I have a great life.”

— Shaun White

“It's been a huge blessing, being able to travel and have a great life.”

— Seann William Scott

“I'm having a great life, and I want to go on having one.”

— Marianne Faithfull

“Only those with guts could bear a great life.”

— Toba Beta

“I just have a great life. I know great people. I've had great relationships - all different kinds of relationships.”

— Julia Roberts

“If only my folks had beaten me, I could have gotten some material about my miserable childhood. But as it is, I've had a great life.”

— Tim Conway

“People look at me and go, 'You must have it made. You have girls. You have a great life.' It's not true. I mean you pull the curtain away, and you see I'm just as insecure and neurotic and scared and vulnerable as anybody, you know.”

— John Stamos

“Homeschooling has given us some wonderful flexibility and some great life experiences, especially with our son.”

— Jodi Benson

“Cancer is cancer. I've got a great life if I can just stay alive.”

— Paul Henderson

“You deserve a great life. I want to see you become unreasonably happy. And you can. And you will.”

— Hill Harper

“I have driven school buses, sold egg rolls and painted houses, and I have often wondered what my life would have been like if I hadn't gone into acting. Mind you, it's a great life, going around pretending you're other people and getting paid ridiculous sums of money for it.”

— John Malkovich

“A great life is to be able to ebb and flow.”

— Robin Wright

“Look at Cillian Murphy: 'Batman,' 'Tron' ... those are some heavy-hitting franchises. But he works his way around it. He manages to have a great career and a great life.”

— Domhnall Gleeson

“I love the responsibility of being a Victoria's Secret spokesmodel. It's a great life skill.”

— Erin Heatherton

“Making others better is a core value of a great life.”

— Todd Stocker

“Every day, in every moment, you get to exercise choices that will determine whether or not you will become a great person, living a great life. Greatness is not something predetermined, predestined or carved into your fate by forces beyond your control. Greatness is always in the moment of the decision.”

— Jeff Olson

“What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.”

— Alfred De Vigny

“I've had a great life, and it all happened because I didn't plan any of it.”

— Eugene Walter

“We smoked the way other American families would have wine with dinner. For us, it was our sacrament. It was something that made a great life sweeter in every possible way,”

— Ann Druyan

“What is God? God is the great life that fills the universe; it is the principle of life aswell.”

— Masahisa Goi

“I think it's important for girls at a young age to be involved in as many things as possible. Especially safe communities of people that teach them great life lessons like self-confidence and courage. And getting girls to go to camp especially in the summer where they can meet new friends, learn new things, and not just sit at home and watch TV.”

— Shawn Johnson

“Things always work out if you don't send that e-mail. That's another great life lesson: I've sent enough e-mails of just "f - k you, f - k you, f - k you" and hit send. I've learned a lot from never being able to take back that I sent that e-mail.”

— John Feldmann

“I get a lot of parents coming up to me, telling me they are grooming their kids to be professional athletes. I'm really against that. I think it's a great life, and yeah, you can lead them in that direction. I think a lot of parents live their lives through the kids. Because they didn't make it, they want their kids to make it. It puts a lot of undue pressure on the kids.”

— Wayne Gretzky

“The Art of Success ... Success is ninety-nine percent mental attitude. It calls for love, joy, optimism, confidence, serenity, poise, faith, courage, cheerfulness, imagination, initiative, tolerance, honesty, humility, patience, and enthusiasm ... Success is having the courage to meet failure without being defeated. It is refusing to let present loss interfere with your long-range goal ... Success is relative and individual and personal. It is your answer to the problem of making your minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years add up to a great life.”

— Wilferd Peterson

“It takes incredible fortitude to keep on the road, even though it's fun and it's rewarding and you can't complain, it's just a great life, but it takes a lot of energy.”

— Kate Pierson

“We have a great life here in Alaska, and we're never going back to America again!”

— Homer

“The people who don't have a great life are the ones who settle for a good one.”

— James C. Collins

“I'm having a great life. And I'm 73 and they still phone me up and ask me to do a job here and there.”

— Anthony Hopkins

“When a great life sets it leaves an afterglow on the sky far into the night.”

— Austin O'Malley

“I meet a lot of young people that want to go into acting because they think of what it will do for them. If that's the case, it can be a very, very painful profession. But if the kids want to do acting because they love it, and they want to give to it, then they can have a great life. It's really about as simple as how you look at it.”

— Ethan Hawke

“I know one day I'll be irrelevant. No matter how hard you try there is a cultural moment, but eventually that window's gone, your time on Earth is finished, and you might as well leave. I could absolutely die tomorrow - I would not care. I feel like I've lived, I feel like I've had a great life.”

— Tom Ford

“I'm always excited about my upcoming shows. I love what I do; I feel very lucky to be able to do what I do, and I never get tired of it. Every time I'm backstage before a show and I feel the murmur of the crowd, it's just incredibly exciting. And I consider myself very fortunate to be able to do this for a job. It's a great life.”

— Brian Regan

“I would love to be able to do both (acting and making music). If I look at someone like Sinatra, who toured until he was 80 and made 60 movies, that would be a great life to have.”

— Jon Bon Jovi

“I may not be as active in it as some people are, but I think that the church has taught me great life lessons.”

— Julianne Hough

“A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.”

— Louis L’Amour

“The difference between someone who is struggling and someone who has a fabulous life comes down to one thing
love. Those who have a great life imagine what they love and want, and they feel the love of what's they're imagining more than other people.”

— Rhonda Byrne

“Without exception, every person who has a great life used love to achieve it. The power to have all the positive and good things in life is love.”

— Rhonda Byrne

“The best way to avoid criticism is never do anything ever. Or, do what you love, have a great life & let others spend their time criticising.”

— Ricky Gervais

“Not all men are destined for greatness," I reminded him. "Are you sure, Fitz? Are you sure? What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? A sadder thing I cannot imagine. Why should not a mother say to herself, if I raise this child aright, if I love and care for her, she shall live a life that brings joy to those about her, and thus I have changed the world? Why should not the farmer that plants a seed say to his neighbor, this seed I plant today will feed someone, and that is how I changed the world today?”

— Robin Hobb