Life Quotes

A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.

Vince Lombardi

Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.

Endicott Peabody

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

Brandon Lee

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

Ellen Glasgow

Must be out - Of - Doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.

Henry David Thoreau

Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life.

W. E. B. Du Bois, last message to the world, 1957

The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.

Albert Einstein

This is our purpose to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.

Oswald Spengle

We trained hard, but it seemed every time we were beginning to form up 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.

From Petronii Arbitri Satyricon AD 66 (Attributed to Gaius Petronus, a Roman General who later committed suicide)

If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you started.

Marcus Garvey

Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.

Gustave Flaubert

Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - The great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.

W. B. Yeats

My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

Miles Davis

Death hath so many doors to let out life.

John Fletcher, The Custom of the Country (1647)

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

P. D. James

One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

Blaise Pascal

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Jack Penn

In the next year or so, my signature will appear on 60 billion of United States currency. More important to me, however, is the signature that appears on my life - The strong, proud, assertive handwriting of a loving father and mother.

Katherine D. Ortega

While the fates permit, live happily life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

Seneca

It is one of those beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Charles Dudley Warne

Real life is, to most men, a long second - Best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.

Bertrand Russell

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Robert Frost

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

Anais Nin

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

Meryl Streep

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

William Faulkne

A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vainthen have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system.

Robert A. Heinlein

Advertising is the most potent influence in adapting and changing the habits and modes of life affecting what we eat, what we wear, and the work and play of a whole nation.

Calvin Coolidge

The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non - Action. One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly.

Lu Yen

Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.

P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy Money

Life is pretty simple You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

Thomas Peters

Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.

Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope.

Reinhold Niebuhr, Rockford (IL) Register Star newspape

What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Oscar Wilde

All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it.

Bob Newhart

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

Paul Gauguin

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

W. Somerset Maugham