Life Quotes

The most decisive actions of our life - - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - - Are, more often than not, unconsidered.

Andre Gide

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

Rita Mae Brown

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

Oscar Wilde

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

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

Susan Sontag

I love life because what more is there.

Anthony Hopkins

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.

Pinda

It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep for your whole life.

Elizabeth Henry

A certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life.

Charles Lindberg

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

Stella Adle

As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Benjamin Disraeli

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Plato, Dialogues, Apology

We hold these truths to be self - Evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments a.

Thomas Jefferson

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

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

Bertrand Russell

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Victor Hugo

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

Booker T. Washington

So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

Victor Hugo

In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.

Susanne Lange

This is the true joy in life - - Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one...

George Bernard Shaw

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Socrates

There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves.

S? ren Kierkegaard

I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.

Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.

Alan Chadwick

Life is too long not to be happy.

Thom Barbe

Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us.

Orison Swett Marden

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

Dorothy Day

Live your own life, for you will die your own death.

Latin Prove

I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

Laura Ingalls Wilde

It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.

Thomas Merton

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman.

Woody Allen

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

D. H. Lawrence

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

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Arnold Bennett

Let the stronger man give to the man whose need is greater let him gaze upon the lengthening path of life. For riches roll like the wheels of a chariot, turning from one to another.

Rig Veda

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 2 or 8. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Moshe Arens