Life Quotes

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.

Henry L. Stimson

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

Sandra Carey

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

The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance, Act 3

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

The Divine Pymande

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butle

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

Benjamin Franklin

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.

Danny Kaye

There is no greater joy than of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Henri Bergson

Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel

I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever - Increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations.

H. G. Wells

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

Dorothy Day

No man is truly great, who is great only in his life - Time. The test of greatness is the page of history.

William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating

Live your own life, for you will die your own death.

Latin Prove

I detest life - Insurance agents they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

Stephen Leacock

Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted in something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

Marie Curie

Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

Elinor Glyn

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life.... Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

Abigail Adams, letter to her sister, Mary Smith Cranch, 1784

One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.

Robert Burns

It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.

Thomas Brackett Reed

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

Charles F. Kettering

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Oscar Wilde

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Herbert Henry Asquith

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Victor Hugo

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace, Satires

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.

Dan Rathe

Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

Albert Camus

I love life because what more is there.

Anthony Hopkins

Life - The way it really is - Is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.

Joseph Brodsky

Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous life... the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the currents of life, is without trouble.

Carl Gustav Jung

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette, Chance Acquaintances, 1952