Life Quotes

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

Nikki Giovanni

Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.

Dr. Thomas Dooley

Life is 10 what you make it, and 90 how you take it.

Irving

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.

E. V. Lucas

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.

W. R. Inge

Grieve not that I die young. Is it not well To pass away ere life hath lost its brightness?

Lady Flora Hastings, ? Swan Song?

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

Maya Angelou

Life is like a sewer... what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.

Tom Lehre

We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It was not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life to this child.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Our friendships are precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part is sunshine.

Thomas Jefferson

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

Woody Allen

The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized as the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment... both of individuals and of humanity.

Alfred Adle

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

Samuel Butle

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, But rather that it shall never have a beginning.

John Henry Newman

All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.

Samuel Butle

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

Erica Jong, O Magazine, 2003

If there is a sin against life, it consist perhaps not so much in despairing of life as hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. Albert Camus.

Albert Camus

No matter what we want of life we have to give up something in order to get it.

Raymond Holliwell

I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.

William Frank Buckley, Jr.

If you give a man a fish, he will have a single meal. If you teach him how to fish, he will eat all his life.

Kwan - Tzu

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

Harold S. Kushne

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.

Thomas Jefferson

While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life.

Theodore Roosevelt

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there? s purpose and worth to each and every life.

Ronald Reagan

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Karen Kaiser Clark

Growth is the only evidence of life.

John Henry Newman

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.

Richard Bach

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

Everyone is in business for himself, for he is selling his services, labor or ideas. Until one realizes that this is true he will not take conscious charge of his life and will always be looking outside himself for guidance.

Sidney Madwed

One friend in a lifetime is much two are many three are hardly possible.

Henry Adams

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Bertrand Russell

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.

Jay Leno

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

Helen Kelle