Life Quotes

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

Josh Billings

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Mark Twain

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

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A dream can be nurtured over years and years and then flourish rapidly.... Be patient. It will happen for you. Sooner or later, life will get weary of beating on you and holding the door shut on you, and then it will let you in and throw you a real party.

Les Brown

The journey in between what you once were and who you are now beoming is where the dance of life really takes place.

Barbara De Angelis

Life is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain.

Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt, Book 2 of The Wheel of Time

Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the life - Long attempt to acquire it.

Albert Einstein

Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.

Richard M. DeVos

Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.

Emil Nolde

There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

William Shakespeare

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

Dudley Field Malone

Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.

Thich Nhat Hanh

No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.

Author Unknown

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

Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

George Bernard Shaw

Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.

Henry David Thoreau

Life is too short for traffic.

Dan Bellack

One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.

Iris Murdoch

I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.

Detronius Arbite

Life is as tedious as a twice - Told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare, "King John", Act 3 scene 4

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

Adlai E. Stevenson, J

Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Grow old along with me The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made Our times are in his hand who saith, A whole I planned, Youth shows but half trust God See all, nor be afraid.

Robert Browning

Life is tragic for those who have plenty to live on and nothing to live for.

Author Unknown

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

Charles Caleb Colton

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head - On and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

Gene Roddenberry

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.

H. G. Wells

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Stephen King

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

Charles Roberts Buxton

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.

George Santayana

There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.

Karl Poppe

Life is not a matter of milestones, but of moments.

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.

Samuel Butle

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

Charles Dickens