Life Quotes

One hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, how big my house was, or what kind of car I drove. But the world may be a little better, because I was important in the life of a child.

Forest Witcraft

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage - - It can be delightful.

George Bernard Shaw

Science is the only true guide in life.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Founder of modern Turkey 22. 09. 1924

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

This life is a test. It is only a test. Had this been an actual life, you would have received further instructions as to what to do and where to go.

Unknown

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

Bruce Lee, Film: (Dragon The Bruce Lee Story. Quotation posted at end of film just before credits)

For some life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever.

Laura Swenson

There are two messages from theory of Karma. Our condition in this life is determined by our deeds in previous life. We must do good in this life to improve our conditions in next life.

B. J. Gupta

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It violates right order whenever capital so employees the working or wage - Earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage without, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good.

Pope Pius XI

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.

John Henry Cardinal Newman

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

It has just been twenty - Three years since I began to wander. In the next twenty - Three years I wonder if there will come a time when life is no longer a wonderful adventure; when there is not some interesting experience in things or personalities waiting just around the corner. If that time does come, I hope that my release will be swift.

Roy Chapman Andrews, Ends of the Earth, 1929

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

Oprah Winfrey

Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.

George Lorime

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

George Gordon Byron

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, But rather that it shall never have a beginning.

John Henry Newman

Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode it is rather a life.

David Grayson

Too much sanity may be madness - And the maddest of all - To see life as it is, and not as it ought to be.

Don Quixote, Man of La Mancha

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

William James

To know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Ralph Emerson

There are three intolerable things in life - Cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.

Orson Welles

A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited.

Osho, The art of Dying

Custom is the great guide of human life.

David Hume

I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is six to five against.

Damon Runyon

The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.

John Updike

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

Booker T. Washington

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.

Dan Rathe

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to another, without helping himself.

Bailey

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Pablo Picasso

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Charles Dickens

There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good life is to live.

Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority it is the highest summit of art and life.

Henri Frdric Amiel

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

Bob Newhart