Life Quotes

In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.

Hendrik W. Van Loon

For health and the constant enjoyment of life, give me a keen and ever - Present sense of humor it is the next best thing to an abiding faith in providence.

George Barrell Cheeve

The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop.

Edwin Conklin

Life is pretty simple You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

Thomas Peters

Let your heart give you joy in all the days of your life.

Ecclesiastes

Patriotism is not a short outburst of emotion, but is the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Surely a tired woman on her way to work at six in the morning on a subway deserves the right to get there safely. everyone who changes his or her life because of crime. have been denied a basic civil right.

George Herbert Walker Bush

All my pupils are the crme de la crme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.

Muriel Spark

Life goes on within you and without you.

George Harrision, From the song "Within you without you" from Sgt Peppe

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Johann von Goethe

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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

Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life.

Julia T. Alvarez

We cannot control the evil tongues of others but a good life enables us to disregard them.

Cato the Elde

Life has. taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

Alan Stewart Paton

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude: Works and Days, 1870

The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence then success is sure.

Mark Twain

Courageous risks are life - Giving, they help you grow, make you brave, and better than you think you are.

Joan L. Curcio

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

Frank Moore Colby

The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

James Truslow Adams

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.

Edward B. Butle

Life is good, if you like that sort of thing.

Overheard in Palo Alto...

Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth having.

Juvenal, Satires

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

Laura Swenson

A good book is the precious life - Blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.

John Milton

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The bigger the real - Life problems, the greater the tendency for the discipline to retreat into a reassuring fantasy - Land of abstract theory and technical manipulation.

Tom Naylo

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.

Joseph Addison

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God.

James Agee

Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.

Albert Schweitze

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you can make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost....

Richard Bach

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Marcus Aurelius

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

Meryl Streep

Blindness and error can change a life as surely as judgment and reason can.

M. Morris