Life Quotes
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves - - To break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.Stewart B. Johnson
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.Theodore Roosevelt, Speech in New York, September 7, 1903
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes next.Ursula K. LeGuin
Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.Charles Scribner, Jr.
The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.Daniel Boorstin
Life is eating us up. We shall be fables presently. Keep cool it will be all one a hundred years hence.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.Frank Lloyd Wright, quoted in his obituary, April 9, 1959
He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.Tieck
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.Arthur Schopenhaue
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.Confucious
My goal in life is to survive. Everything else is just a bonus.The Lockhorns
Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.Marie Curie
Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.Ecclesiastes
We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.Henry Ward Beeche
I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight silence would teach him the joys of sound.Hellen Kelle
Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.Edward Telle
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.Samuel Butle
Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode it is rather a life.David Grayson
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?Cesare Pavese
Every person, all the events of your life are drawn there because you have them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.Richard Bach
There are two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified.Carl Van Vechten
Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.John Updike
Custom is the great guide of human life.David Hume
It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones Diary
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.Aldous Huxley
There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting.Alan John Percivale Taylo
If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?Margot Fonteyn
No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - You win some and you lose some.Ken Keyes
What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motions of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.Josh Billings
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.Foster C. McClellan
The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.E. V. Lucas
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.Erich Fromm
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence then success is sure.Mark Twain
Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.Samuel Butle
