Life Quotes

Theodore roosevelt - while my interest in natural history has added...
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
Marquis de Condorcet
Marcus tullius cicero - for if that last day does not occasion an entire...
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
Wayne W Dye
Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Unknown
You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.
Dag Hammarskjold
Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test.... Peace comes through hope.
James E. Faust
That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
In the next year or so, my signature will appear on 60 billion of United States currency. More important to me, however, is the signature that appears on my life - The strong, proud, assertive handwriting of a loving father and mother.
Katherine D. Ortega
Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
Mary McLeod Bethune
The only real failure in life is the failure to try.
Unknown
W. somerset maugham - art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have...
Believe in life Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life.
W. E. B. Du Bois
Life is full of obstacle illusions.
Grant Frazie
Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.
James Madison, Federalist 10
If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered.
Stephen Hawking, Interview with The Guardian (UK) September 27, 2005
The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.
Oscar Wilde, "The Remarkable Rocket".
What profits a man if he keeps his eternal soul when he could have lived life to the full and been forgiven at the end of it all anyway?
David Merritt, a. k. a. THE RED SHARK
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Pablo Picasso
All my life I wanted to be someone I guess I should have been more specific.
Jane Wagne
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.
Earl Warren
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
Henry Mille
Remember Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.
Endicott Peabody
Love is the life of humanity.
Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Divine Love and Wisdom" #1
I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.
Elizabeth II
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
Henry David Thoreau
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
Jack London, The Call of the Wild
If you are planning for a year, sow rice if you are planning for a decade, plant trees if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
Chinese Prove
If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.
Confucius, Analects, XIV. 12
The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.
John Updike
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he imaged, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
Life is too long not to be happy.
Thom Barbe
Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.
Unknown
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Joe Bob Briggs
In life you can never be too kind or too fair everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
Brian Tracy
It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
Hubert Humphrey
The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible And indescribably as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star - Dust caught, A segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.
Henry David Thoreau
Creation is a better means of self - Expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.
Vida D. Scudde
Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.
Isaac Asimov
Life is too brief. I had a friend whom I intended to know better. Yesterday he died.
David Grayson