Life Quotes
That was and still is the great disaster of my life - That lovely, lovely little boy.Dwight D Eisenhowe
It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.Benjamin Johnson
Not many can admit their fears, but those who can lead a fulfilling life of happiness knowing they hide nothing and need not to.Cyrus Corteise
The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.Thomas Carlyle
General Grant had a simple, childlike recipe for meeting life... I am terribly afraid, but the other fellow is afraid, too.Sherwood Anderson
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this.Henry David Thoreau
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.Buddha
Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.Euripedes, Medea
Live life to the fullest.Ernest Hemingway
I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cut - Throat, competitive world in which I spent my life.Anthony Perkins
But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.D. H. Lawrence
What I still ask for daily - For life as long as I have work to do, and work as long as I have life.Reynolds Price
At the end of our time on earth, if we have lived fully, we will not be able to say, I was always happy. Hopefully we will be able to say, I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.Barbara DeAngelis
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - In firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.Seneca
The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - Such a man may be reckoned a complete man.Confucius
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.Henry David Thoreau
How strange is the lot of us mortals Each of us is here for a brief sojourn for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.Albert Einstein
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.Victor Hugo
Live life to the fullest tomorrow may never be.Shahrukh Khan, a famous actor in india
The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no.Lester Bangs
I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.Detronius Arbite
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.Johann von Goethe
The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.Henry Boye
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.James F. Byrnes
Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!Henry David Thoreau, WALDEN: Or, Life in the Woods
Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show.David Gerrold
Life is either always a tight - Rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight - Rope.Edith Wharton
The great omission in American life is solitude... that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit.Marya Mannes
Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.Learned Hand
Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.Albert Einstein
I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.Christa McAuliffe
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.Frank Lloyd Wright
In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.Charles M. Schwa
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.Simone Weil
A lawyer starts life giving 500 worth of law for 5 and ends giving 5 worth for 500.Benjamin H. Brewste
At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.Dame Rose Macaulay
Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.Ernestine Ulme
