Life Quotes

Marcus aurelius, meditations? book three - one whose chief regard is for his own mind, and...
When we can say no not only to things that are wrong and sinful, but also to things pleasant, profitable, and good which would hinder and clog our grand duties and our chief work, we shall understand more fully what life is worth, and how to make the most of it.
Charles A. Stoddard
When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break.
Akhenaton
Life is a long lesson in humility.
James M. Barrie
George bernard shaw - a lifetime of happiness no man alive could bear...
War is a matter of vital importance to the State; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied.
Sun Tzu
Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.
Gloria Swanson
Life is largely a matter of expectation.
Horace
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.
Theodore Roosevelt
And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents.
Sir Arther Connan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes
Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.
Zelda
Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might.
Alfred A. Montapert
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.
Rainer Maria Rilke
The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.
Dr. Smiley Blanton
Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4
Life..... is a series of dogs.
George Carlin
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away. - Hercules Furens.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
James Truslow Adams
A life spent making mistakes is not only most honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Unknown
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life.
Bette Davis
Life is like a ten speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use.
Charles Monroe Schultz
The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.
Charles Schwa
She knows what is the best purpose of education not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.
John Mason Brown
The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.
Henry Boye
A good book is the precious life - Blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.
John Milton
Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.
Sir Walter Raleigh
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Ben Stein
The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.
H. T. Leslie
Life is not a laughing matter, but can you imagine having to live without laughing.
Leonid Sukhorukov
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Dale Carnegie
The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop.
Edwin Conklin
No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
George Bernard Shaw
Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
Unknown
I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal.
Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun
Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
Eugene Delacroix
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, not even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.
Henry David Thoreau
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire