Top 100 Spend Your Life Quotes
#1. You spend your life having lessons, practising and competing as an amateur, and working during the day. As you get to the top end of the amateur field, you try not to work anymore; you earn your living through dancing, maybe by doing a bit of teaching. It's an ongoing life's work.
Anton Du Beke
#2. Making music is a wonderful way to spend your life, but do it for the love before a career. Enjoy it.
Nigel Godrich
#3. It's a weird thing when you spend your life trying to find these great scripts and great parts. You are reading scripts, you are traveling the world, you are hassling your agent. You are trying to find that script.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
#4. While I think storytelling is a meaningful way to spend your life ... it does feel a little bit secondary or off-point.
David Simon
#5. If you spend your life walking through somebody else's museum, you never find out whether you're Rembrandt or not.
Adam Carolla
#6. Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.
Robert Breault
#7. If you summon your courage to challenge something, you'll never be left with regret. How sad it is to spend your life wishing, "If only I'd had a little more courage." Whatever the outcome may be, the important thing is to step forward on the path that you believe is right.
Daisaku Ikeda
#8. You can't spend your life apologizing.
Jude Law
#9. You can spend your life watching other people win or beat your name into history.
Georges St-Pierre
#10. It's not stupid to want to spend your life with someone. It's brave.
Nikki Logan
#11. If you're going to spend your life standing on principle, you want to be sure everyone understands what the principle is.
Elmore Leonard
#12. You spend your life training to be an actor, observing people's characteristics so that you can design characters around what you've seen.
Clint Eastwood
#13. He said it was better to work years at creating an asset rather than to spend your life working hard for money to create someone else's asset.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#14. Marriage is a long-term commitment. You should only step into that commitment if you truly love the person and want to spend your life with her.
Nick Vujicic
#15. I think you spend your life expecting to be disappointed, so when someone hurts you just a tiny bit, you can say: there I was right all along...You like being right.
Liza Conrad
#16. It is really rare to find someone you really, really love and that you want to spend your life with and all that stuff that goes along with being married. I am one of those lucky people. And I think she feels that way too. So the romantic stuff is easy because you want them to be happy.
Harry Connick Jr.
#17. If you don't take the time to get really clear about exactly what it is you're trying to accomplish, then you're forever doomed to spend your life achieving the goals of those who do.
Steve Pavlina
#18. You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.
Peter Garrett
#19. Funny way to spend your life, though, studying another chap's versifying.
A.S. Byatt
#20. Life is a suicide course, Miro. Check it out- basic philosophy course. You spend your life running out of fuel and when you're finally out, you croak.
Orson Scott Card
#21. We have learned that it is better to live with one leg than to spend your life on your knees.
Gregory A. Freeman
#22. You either spend your life preparing or you spend your life repairing.
John C. Maxwell
#23. If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!
Marilyn Monroe
#24. It's important to know what you're going to spend your life on, and the only way you're going to find that is by connecting with the force inside yourself.
Erica Jong
#25. You're not gonna get through life without being worshipful or devoted to something. You're either devoted to your job, or to your desires. So the best way to spend your life is to try to be devoted to prayer, to Allah.
Mos Def
#26. Drink your wine. Laugh from your gut. Burden your moments with thankfulness. Be as empty as you can be when that clock winds down. Spend your life. And if time is a river, may you leave a wake.
N.D. Wilson
#27. Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to fit in.
Brandon Mull
#28. If I'm not on tour or in the studio, I'm in nature somewhere, usually some kind of ocean. Playing music has afforded me that. It's not lost on me that it's a tremendous opportunity to be able to spend your life being surrounded by nature.
Eddie Vedder
#29. You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.
Og Mandino
#30. Do not spend your life searching for a place to call home.Make the bones in your skeleton the only structure you need.
Haley Hendrick
#31. Why spend your life trying to fit in, when you are born to stand out?
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#32. The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.
Bill Copeland
#33. All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then forgets it, but pats you on the head for doing it and gives you a reward as appreciation for changing nothing.
David Baldacci
#34. You are not Melusina, rising from a fountain to easy happiness. You will not be a beautiful woman at court with nothing to do but make magic. The road you have chosen will mean that you have to spend your life scheming and fighting. Our task, as your family, is to make sure you win.
Philippa Gregory
#35. Don't spend your life collecting other peoples postcards
Syd Hair
#36. It's called "being an artist" for a reason; it's something YOU ARE. It's how you live. It's WHO you are. How you spend your life and what you leave behind.
Charlotte Eriksson
#37. I realize that lessons are meant to be learned, honored even, or else you can spend your life running so far from them that you erect a false existence around the very thing you should be embracing.
Allison Winn Scotch
#38. I never go to weddings. Waste of time. Person can get married a dozen times. Lots of folks do. Family like ours, know everybody in the state of Texas and around outside, why, you could spend your life going to weddings. But a funeral, that's different. You only die once.
Edna Ferber
#39. The perfect blossom is a rare thing. You could spend your life looking for one and it would not be a wasted life.
Ken Watanabe
#40. To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life.
Cate Blanchett
#41. The point is, you are capable of change! Life is what you make of it! Use this self-help program to make it all you want it to be. Don't spend your life waiting for your luck to change. Make your own good luck by changing the way you respond. Go for it! The rewards are immeasurable.
Jonathan Berent
#42. What you end up doing," the mechanic says, "is you spend your life searching for a father and God.
Chuck Palahniuk
#43. There's something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.'
There are too many with that vocation. God would have had to love only me.
Simone De Beauvoir
#44. The truth is that you can spend your life any way you want, but you can spend it only once.
John C. Maxwell
#45. Sooner or later, everybody dies. I figure it's best to spend your life doing what you enjoy. Every morning when I stand and look into the mirror, that time is still my own. I wonder how much longer that will last.
Hiroshi Sakurazaka
#47. Love was a hundred times worse than all the stupid songs could ever try to explain. And when he loved you back, it was too much. Like all of those feelings could never fit. You'd have to spend your life trying to figure out how, but it wouldn't matter as long as he kept looking at you like that.
K.A. Mitchell
#48. If you're going to question your sanity whenever someone tells you you're insane, you'll spend your life in misery.
Cameron Jace
#49. You could spend your life trying to uncover all the treasures in New Orleans and not even scratch the surface. It's such an amazing place.
Blake Lively
#50. When you spend your life acting and being other people, as opposed to being the one person that you are, you learn that life is gray sometimes, not black and white. That what you thought was true isn't necessarily true if you switch sides.
Sydney Pollack
#51. You spend your life so worried about what others think, when in reality, people mostly don't think. On the few occasions when they do, true, it is often something bad, but one has to at least admire the fact that they're thinking at all.
Michael Zadoorian
#52. How you spend your days is how you spend your life.
Annie Dillard
#53. As an actor or anybody as a human being, I feel more and more like I want to spend time doing something significant. Because what's the alternative? Spend your life wasting your time.
Ron Perlman
#54. If you spend your life on a moral hill-top, you see nothing but the mud below. If, like me, you live in the mud itself, you get a damned good view of clear blue sky and clean green hills above. There's none so evil-minded as those with a moral mission, and none so pure in heart as the depraved.
Stephen Fry
#55. Truth didn't mean anything without someone to share it with; you could shout truth into the air forever, and spend your life doing it, if someone didn't come and listen.
Naomi Novik
#56. Why spend your life with someone who is dying to change you ... when you can be with someone who only wants to love you as you are.... being his world, moon and stars.
Renee' A. Lee
#57. It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness, or speaking a true word, or making a friend.
John Ruskin
#58. You can spend your life judging people or, you can spend it making friends. Take your pick.
Carroll Bryant
#59. What you fear your whole life comes to pass. You end up living toward it, you spend your life running from it but your foot is nailed to the sidewalk. You circle around it until you wear yourself own.
Nick Flynn
#60. You spend your life dreaming, running 'round in a trance, You hang out forever and still miss the dance, And if you get lucky, you might find someone, To help you get over the pain that will come.
Tom Petty
#61. You can spend your life chitchatting with someone - even a good friend - but spend even an hour moving over a rocky path, breathing in pine-scented air, and I guarantee you the chitchat will turn to something else.
Scott Jurek
#62. You're going to spend your life doing something; you might as well pay the price to get what you want.
John Hawkins
#63. You spend your life getting walked on, you learn to recognize the tread.
Nora Roberts
#64. You cannot spend your life wanting to be someone else, snipping off pieces of yourself you don't like, and suddenly expect, upon reaching a goal, to be confident, self-accepting, rooted like an oak tree in your being.
Geneen Roth
#65. But then I think how I grew sick of kissing him. How can you spend your life with a person you're sick of kissing?
Curtis Sittenfeld
#66. Love comes like lightning, and disappears the same way. If you are lucky, it strikes you right. If not, you'll spend your life yearning for a man you can't have.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#67. Not that pain is the worst thing in the universe. Interesting things happen when you adapt pain for your own. This thing you were prepared to spend your life flinching from is suddenly just another piece of information.
Shelley Jackson
#68. If I have any advantage, maybe, as a writer, it is that I don't think I'm very interesting. I mean, beginning a novel with the last sentence is a pretty plodding way to spend your life.
John Irving
#69. Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair.
Steven G. Krantz
#70. If you spend your life over analysing every encounter you will always see the tree, but never the forest.
Shannon L. Alder
#71. If you spend your life trying to please people or letting them control you, you may make them happy, but you'll miss your destiny.
Joel Osteen
#72. You don't spend your life hanging around books without learning a thing or two.
Lemony Snicket
#73. Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?
Tim Burton
#74. You can spend your life competing in a world that talks too loud / You can lose your own direction getting lost among the crowd / Confusion - is it any wonder that the road ahead's not clear / Well you can try too hard to find it now I realise it's here
Kim Wilde
#75. If you're suddenly doing something you don't want to do for four years, just so you've got something to fall back on, by the time you come out you don't have that 16-year-old drive any more and you'll spend your life doing something you never wanted to do in the first place.
Ewan McGregor
#76. When you forgive, you must cancel the debt. Do not spend your life paying and collecting debts.
Joyce Meyer
#77. Although you may spend your life killing, you will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
Nagarjuna
#78. I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.
Donald Hall
#79. Maybe if you spend your life pretending you're on a movie set, you don't ever have to admit that the walls are made out of paper and the food is plastic and the words in your mouth aren't really yours.
Jodi Picoult
#80. I am not my past. I am my present. I am my future. The past can chase you if you let it.You can spend your life trying to outrun it or you can stop running, turn around and look it inthe face. i've stared down my past, and now i'm moving on.I am more than my past.I am my future and it belings to me.
Lauren Blakely
#81. It's like a firstborn son: you spend your life working for him, sacrificing everything for him, and at the moment of truth, he does just as he pleases.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#82. You can spend your life trying to be popular, and that's a tricky business. You can just try to be true to yourself.
Kevin Costner
#83. But do you really want to spend your life like this, as if you're locked in a library?" "Of course." Alba grins. "I can't think of anything better.
Menna Van Praag
#84. I don't think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He's given you ... but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things ... he's not a small God; this God is incredible.
Joel Osteen
#85. I'm very happy with my lot. I like the variety I get. You don't want to spend your life repeating yourself. It's true of any kind of artist, you want to explore as wide and far as you can go, so that's what I've been trying to do.
Toni Collette
#86. This is a terrible place to spend your life in. Nobody in Hollywood is normal. Absolutely nobody. And they have such a vicious attitude toward one another. They say much worse things about each other than outsiders say about them, and nobody has any real friends.
Gary Cooper
#87. Each dream finds at last its form; there is a drink for every thirst, and love for every heart. And there is no better way to spend your life than in the unceasing preoccupation of an idea
of an ideal.
Gustave Flaubert
#88. When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity ... you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others
Robert Greene
#89. If you follow your dreams and spend your life doing what brings you joy, you are more likely to find success
Richard Branson
#91. Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.
Chuck Palahniuk
#92. When you spend your life doing what you love to do, you are nourishing your Soul. It matters not what you do, only that you love whatever you happen to do.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#93. You won't know how lucky you are to be able to spend your life with the other half of your soul until you have to spend your life without them.
Anna Todd
#94. There's what you're forced to do, there's what you choose, and everything else - most things - are a mix. At best, you'll spend your life trying not to get hurt, but trying not to do the hurting, either. You won't always come through, but it's the best anyone can do. It's the trying I'd call good.
Alexandra Duncan
#95. You're either gonna spend your life fucking pussy, or taking it to church.
Dave Matthes
#96. If you spend your life waiting for the sun you'll never enjoy the storm.
Morris L. West
#97. Traveling anywhere in the world involves some risk. You could always opt to spend your life cowering under your bed.
Joe Haldeman
#98. You can spend your life looking over your shoulder or you can look ahead. I choose to look ahead
Pleasant Rowland
#99. Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly.
Claire McCaskill
#100. You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.
Hanif Kureishi
