Life Quotes

William james - the greatest discovery of any generation is that...
Every man has a right to life. That means that he also has a right to make a comfortable living.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Socrates
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
Brandon Lee
Seneca - wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as...
Gaius julius caesa - he has not learned the lesson of life who does...
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.
Earl Warren
In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character the multitude pass us by like a distant army.
Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.
Lawana Blackwell
I had learnt to seek intensitymore of life, a concentrated sense of life.
Nina Berberova
A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
Cicero
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
There are two sorts of curiosity - - The momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.
Robert Lynd
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.
Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
For any woman to success in American life she must first do two things Prepare herself for a profession, and marry a man who wants her to succeed as much as she does.
Cathleen Douglas
Man is immortal therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea it can only find itself in changing forms.
Rabindranath Tagore
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carve
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
George Bernard Shaw
Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.
W. R. Inge
Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight - Lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.
Smiley Blanton
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
Rainer Maria Rilke
All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!
Bob Newhart
The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose.
Richard Leide
Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.
Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
Plato, The Republic
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Joseph Chilton Pearce
I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.
Dave Barry
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Robert Darwin
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
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
Phillips Brooks
She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.
John Mason Brown
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
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
Alfred Hitchcock
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good.
Peter Coope
There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.
Frederika Breme
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
Helen Kelle
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