Top 100 Make A Life Quotes
#1. Activities and passions pursued during the fringe hours make a life more beautiful and the participant feel more alive and more uniquely herself.
Jessica N. Turner
#2. Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.
William, Saroyan
#3. Big decisions in my life have always come easy and are made without hesitation. It is easier for me to make a life-changing decision than to decide what to get for dessert.
Tony Hawk
#4. My daughter recently reminded me not to get so busy making a living, I forget to make a life and I'm going to take that advice.
Angie Stone
#6. You can't make a life without making mistakes. Relax and learn something
Rick Warren
#7. Don't just be making a living; make a life and leave an indelible footstep wherever you step.
Israelmore Ayivor
#8. It is the immutable law that the more you give away, the more you receive. You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give.
Thomas S. Monson
#9. As I descended the stairs, the years between us seemed accumulated everywhere, filling the house, and it seemed strange to me, how love and habit blurred so thoroughly to make a life.
Sue Monk Kidd
#10. And I, who have never thought in terms of a life, think to myself that I could make a life out of this.
David Levithan
#11. Knowing how to make a life mean something, to wring out its worth when it was right there in one's hands instead of just wishing about it afterward, or imagining how it could have been, or should have been, different.
Deborah Reed
#12. Any fool can make enough money to survive. It's another thing to keep yourself consistently entertained. It's a lot of work, and a lot of fun, to make a life.
Robert Fulghum
#13. Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating ... too often fathers neglect it because they get so caught up in making a living they forget to make a life.
John Wooden
#14. True masters are those who've chosen to make a life rather than a living.
Neale Donald Walsch
#15. A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.
Charlie Byrd
#16. At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.
Neil Postman
#17. Elijah's problem, in Danny's mind, is that he has no sense of what it takes to make a living. Danny's problem, in Elijah's mind, is that he has no sense of what it takes to make a life.
David Levithan
#18. You can't make a life over. Society wouldn't let you if you would.
Mark Twain
#19. Make a life with me, one that comes from love, one that I can watch grow in you. Only a fool would believe that what comes from what we have together would be anything but beautiful.
Nora Roberts
#21. These girls come; they last one season; they're completely used up and dried out and sent back home. That's not how to make a life. I want a girl to come in knowing full well what she's getting into and being able to deal and make decisions that will create a career.
Carol Alt
#22. Everything changes when you make a decision to be one of the courageous ones, someone who chooses to make a life, rather than a living.
Neale Donald Walsch
#23. Show business is part of a larger culture, a world-wide culture that must make up to the fact that the accumulation of things doesn't make a life necessary any happier or purposeful.
Tom Shadyac
#24. I have a slightly contrarian streak as a writer, and one of the things I was interested in was how distilled could I make a life, and how I could cross what is kind of trivialized as a domestic novel with a novel of ideas, a philosophical novel.
Jenny Offill
#25. Tell few about your dreams and show the rest in the way you make a life with it.
Nikki Rowe
#26. I always wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know how someone could make a life out it.
Julie Mehretu
#27. How do I get past my fears? Make a life for myself? Risk loving someone? When death is all that waits for you, what's the point in trying to have a life?
Colleen Houck
#28. Work to make a living; serve to make a life.
Will Rogers
#29. If work is to make a life the purpose of the organization might need to shift to include a greater degree of meaning.
Dan Pontefract
#30. People will make a life in their own terms, whether they are deaf or colorblind or autistic or whatever. And their world will be quite as rich and interesting and full as our world.
Oliver Sacks
#31. Education is worth little if it teaches only how to make a living rather than how to make a life.
Mary Hatwood Futrell
#32. Learning is important. It is a way to make a life better for yourself and your family.
Rosie Thomas
#33. The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier.
Beau Willimon
#34. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill
#35. When it comes to English stand-up comedy, Indians have only seen the best - Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Cosby and the like. So, when someone claims to be an English stand-up comedian in India, he'd better be very good if he's going to make a life of it.
Vir Das
#36. I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
Mark Victor Hansen
#37. Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#38. The goal of life isn't to make lots of money. Its to make a life that means EXCLUSIVE.
Mohit Manke
#39. Give a reason for your existence and make a life out of it.
Nikki Rowe
#40. You can't make a life-altering decision for someone else and expect it to stick.
Jennifer Hudson
#42. Whether you face reality head on and make a life change, or deny your responsibility, you've made a choice. The way I see it you choose either a life of abundant strength and energy, or you're living in the gap, far beneath the quality of life you could be enjoying.
Shawn Phillips
#43. To make a living is no longer enough. Work also has to make a life.
Peter Drucker
#44. Even where love has run thin the child's soul musters strength ... the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past abandonment building the layers up again over the torn hole.
Adrienne Rich
#45. From 1965 to 1974, I served the best possible apprenticeship for an actor. I learned firsthand how a truck driver lives, what a bartender does, how a salesman thinks. I had to make a life inside those jobs, not just pretend.
Brian Dennehy
#46. Boyfriends and literature: How can you make a life out of those two things? As it turns out, I did; more literature than boyfriends lately, but I guess you can't have everything.
Susanna Kaysen
#47. Men she thought, could make a clean break with a woman, could leave in the way Parveen's husband had. Or could even be left, like George and determine to make a life another way. It was women who longed to retain ties and connections, to mix things up in complicated ways.
Nell Freudenberger
#49. The girl you marry and the woman you must make a life with are two different people.
Herman Wouk
#50. In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.
William Allen White
#51. Maybe the only thing that matters is to make our lives last as long as we do. You know, to make a life last until it ends, to make all the parts come out even, like when you rub the last piece of bread in the last drop of oil on your plate and eat it with the last sip of wine in your glass.
Marlena De Blasi
#52. Good counsel: generosity, longevity, acceptance, relinquishment, letting the world come to me
and, with these things to make a life.
Richard Ford
#53. Don't be so busy trying to make a living that you're too busy to make a life.
Dan Miller
#54. I hope that people will realize that the struggle to make a life better with a sibling is worth it.
Marie Brenner
#55. A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life.
William Barclay
#56. Even if it's not what you planned, you can make a life for yourself on your own and be happy.
Lisa Scottoline
#57. From what we get in life, we make a living. From what we give, we make a life.
Winston Churchill
#58. Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.
Dolly Parton
#59. I don't ask for guarantees. I'll tell you what I want. I want to laugh with you. Sit and look at you. Wake up with nothing to think about but how warm and smooth you feel against me. Make a life together. All of this has been worth it if we can have that.
Deborah Smith
#62. Sstudying ants just quickly became part of me because I was allowed to wander, explore and find things and figure things out myself. And I saw how much was there and what could be done and how I could make a life of it.
E. O. Wilson
#63. You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.
Kate Morton
#64. I'm not as interested in dispensing knowledge on how to make a living ass I am in helping young people learn how to make a life...
D. Bruce Lockerbie
#65. I wanted to be great. And I loved Nashville, so that made it easy. I loved the music business. It made it easy for me to stay and make a life here.
Brandy Clark
#66. Every soldier, every cop who's faced with a decision to make, a life or death, does the best he or she can.
Peter T. King
#68. We spend more time learning how to make a living than we do learning to make a life.
Muhammad Ali
#69. I've put out kind of a lot of albums and people seem to like it and the crowds keep getting bigger and bigger, so I think maybe I could make a life out of it.
Kevin Morby
#70. A romp in the hay lingers like the first line of a song, but your true love is the one you make a life with and write more than a line about, you write a whole book.
Garrison Keillor
#71. Our first half is about how to make a living, and our second half has the promise of being about how to make a life.
Bob Buford
#72. He was furious with himself for having lived these last days on a wish. On a lie. A kiss does not make the future. Love alone does not make a life.
Alethea Kontis
#73. A romantic comedy has to be funny and make you think about life; but the obstacle that has to be overcome is key.
Jennifer Lopez
#74. In a while he would make the necessary notes, describing the only known cure for Vitriol: an awareness of life.
Paulo Coelho
#75. The moment you make passive income and portfolio income a part of your life, your life will change. Those words will become flesh.
Robert Kiyosaki
#76. Music is such an important element in creating the drama that a runway show needs in order to be memorable and to make the clothes come to life.
Mia Moretti
#77. Live a life that will make you look back in old age at your life and grin in satisfaction.
Sunday Adelaja
#78. My best advice for
you, honey, is to stop if you possibly can! And if you just can't, then get ready to work
like hell. Hang onto your day job. And remember, you may not make a living, but you'll
make a wonderful life.
Doris Betts
#79. I have survived my first day of chemo and I like this feeling of survival. It's alive and it's right and it's what I will make sure I feel every day for the rest of the life I have left. I make a promise to myself: While I'm dying, I will be completely fucking alive.
Glenn Rockowitz
#80. If you live in a ghetto and really want not to just change your life and your family's life but change your ghetto's life, make your ghetto a good neighbourhood, learn science; try to be like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.
Will.i.am
#81. This doesn't make sense."
"I know," Kylie said. "And that seems to be the theme song of my life right now. Not a damn thing makes sense.
C.C. Hunter
#82. A lot of people just thought I'd be a .260 hitter all my life. I was kind of like, 'Let me make some adjustments and let me learn the game a little bit.'
Jeff Francoeur
#83. I've been a foodie most of my life. I started when I lived for a year in Germany in my early 20s, and here was this new food environment, and I decided I needed to make sense of it. And I found it was the rules of economics that do the best job. Food is a capitalist product of supply and demand.
Tyler Cowen
#84. I was always taught as a kid that if there's anything you want in life, you've got to work towards it. I guess that sort of stayed with me, really. But also, for me, from the time I was, like, 10 years old, all I ever wanted to do was be in a band and make music.
Paul Weller
#85. You are pure-hearted and lovely, and you have never done a moment's wrong. But you are a living creature, born to make a real life, however it cracks your heart.
Margo Lanagan
#87. A guy's gotta live, you know, gotta make his way and find his meaning in life and love, and to do that he needs coffee, he needs coffee and coffee and coffee.
Libba Bray
#88. Empty hands held high
such a small sacrifice
if not joined with my life, i sing in vain tonight
may the words i say, and the things i do
make my lifesong sing to you
Let my lifesong sing to you ...
Casting Crowns
#89. I think in life, there are certain choices you make that are timeless and universal, and don't necessarily have anything to do with the particulars of a certain decade.
Bret Easton Ellis
#90. I think Direct Cinema's trying to be insightful by looking at reality in a very close way while, in fact, much more is staged than we like to think. In cinema verite, it's about trying to make something invisible visible - the role of fantasy and imagination in everyday life.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#91. Shall we make a new rule of life ... Always try to be a little kinder than us necessary? ['The little white bird' by JM Barrie]
R.J. Palacio
#92. I can remember when
delusions of grandeur
entailed wanting to
be a rock star, movie star,
a millionaire; to make it
as a writer
now it seems that it's
to want to earn a
decent living
Phil Volatile
#93. Read. Read every chance you get. Read to keep growing. Read history. Read poetry. Read for pure enjoyment. Read a book called Life on a Little Known Planet. It's about insects. It will make you feel better.
David McCullough
#94. what matters is not that we believe in God. God is not small-minded. What matters is for us to understand that life is serious and rich. We should appreciate it and also try to make the world a better place. Whoever finds a balance between the two is close to God.
David Lagercrantz
#95. And in fact the only way I can deal with this eerie situation at all is to make a conscious decision that I have already lived and finished the life I planned to live - and everything from now on will be A New Life, a different thing, a gig that ends tonight and starts tomorrow morning.
Hunter S. Thompson
#96. Because you can make decisions for yourself even if they're wrong. Mistakes can be corrected. Life is too short to have everyone else tell you how to live. Make a few mistakes, and learn from them. At least they'll be real, and you'll be living, not just existing.
Carolyn Brown
#97. The politician, Johnson's experience had taught him, could make promises without keeping them; words spoken in public had little relation to the practical conduct of daily life. But whatever justification a politician may claim for deceptions, the statesman must align his words with his action.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#98. Iron can only be destroyed by rust, and rust is a slow process which is caused by the hydrogen ion from water in the environment. Coat yourself against negative thoughts and be careful what you feed your mind because your mind is your greatest asset, make sure you are not using it against yourself.
Uzoma Nnadi
#99. Never let a boy be your life. They can live in your world, but never make a guy your world.
Taylor Swift
#100. A sense of humor saves your life, and being able to make friends wherever you go.
Jason O'Mara
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