Life Quotes
Life is a tale told by an idiot - - Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.William Shakespeare
Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.Albert Einstein
The real tradegy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort - He never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.Arnold Bennett
I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.William J. Locke
What is life An illusion, a shadow, a story, And the greatest good is little enough for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.Pedro Calderon de la Barca
The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.H. T. Leslie
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.Dr. David M. Burns
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe believe life it teaches better than book or orator.Johann von Goethe
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.George Eliot
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.George Bernard Shaw
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.W. Somerset Maugham
We trained very hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form into teams we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.Gaius Petronius
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.Edmund Spenser, 1590
Friendship without self - Interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.James F. Byrnes
Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!Friedrich Nietzsche
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped.Arthur Schopenhaue
Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given.Deepak Chopra
States should have the right to enact... laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.George W. Bush, Gov. of Texas, state leading in executions
What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.Unknown
Middle age is the time of life that a man first notices in his wife.Richard Willard Armou
There are men I could spend eternity with. but not this life.Kathleen Norris
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.John D. Rockefelle
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.Bertrand Russell
What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.Crowfoot
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
Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.Langston Hughes
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.Truman Capote
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone? The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.Lin Yutang, O Magazine, October 2002
Life is a dead - End street.Henry Louis Mencken
As soon as there is life there is danger.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude (1870)
Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.Epictetus
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.Walter Bagehot
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.Norman Douglas
There is more to life than increasing its speed.Mahatma Gandhi
For 10 years of my life, 3 times a day, I thanked the Lord for what I was about to receive and thanked him again for what I had just received, and then we lost touch and I suddenly thought, where is he nowTom Stoppard
Like the winds of the sea are the winds of fate As we voyage along through life, Tis the set of the soul That decides its goal And not the calm or the strife.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Challenges are what makes life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.Joshua J. Marine
Life is like an onion. You peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep.Unknown
