Life Quotes

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life Overcome fear, behold wonder.

Aeschylus

He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.

Tieck

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthime

Whose life is it anyway.

Brian Clark

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

Frances Willard

Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.

Ernestine Ulme

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

Herbert Spence

Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one.

H. L. Mencken

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

Euripides

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.

William James

I love life because what more is there.

Anthony Hopkins

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - In firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.

Oswald Mosley

Oregano is the spice of life.

Henry J. Tillman

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint - Exupery

Patriotism is not a short outburst of emotion, but is the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death!

Patrick Henry

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden, in Healthy Living Magazine

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - Or are they holding you back.

Clement Stone

Let your heart give you joy in all the days of your life.

Ecclesiastes

Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Experience a comb life gives you after you lose your hair.

Judith Stern

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is very important to Americans.

Bob Dole

Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

John Christian Bovee

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.

Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Benjamin Disraeli

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things Knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Amelia Earhart

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carve

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man.

Sir Theodore Martin

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.

Burton Hills

Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two sides of a dollar bill, each different in design. ... Her problem is to keep one from draining the life from the other.

Ivy Baker Priest

There is only one success - To be able to spend your life in your own way.

Unknown

Friendship without self - Interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

James F. Byrnes

Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.

Henry David Thoreau