Life Quotes

Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something.

Johann von Goethe

That was and still is the great disaster of my life - That lovely, lovely little boy.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.

Arbie M. Dale

Education is life itself.

John Dewey

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - - Gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

Tennessee Williams

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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)

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling in them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

Richard E. Byrd

What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

Albert Einstein

One path alone leads to a life of peace The path of virtue.

Juvenal

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.

Phyllis McGinley

Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.

Amelia Bu

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

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

Laura Ingalls Wilde

The most dangerous aspect of present - Day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical.

Eugenio Montale

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

I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.

Nathan Hale

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

Rachel Carson

Remember Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.

Endicott Peabody

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Benjamin Disraeli

One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

Rita Mae Brown

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.

Jane Fonda

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

I detest life - Insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

Stephen Leacock

It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it.

W. Somerset Maugham

Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.

John Donne

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Charles Kingsley

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we all take a little of each other everywhere.

Tim McGraw

No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother. Not for millions, .. not for glory, not for fame. For one person, .. in the dark.. where no one will ever know.. or see.

J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5 (Television Series) "Comes the Inquisitor".

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.

Charles Scribner, Jr.

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

Mark Twain

The real test of friendship is Can you literally do nothing with the other person Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple They are the moments people look back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Eugene Kennedy

I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.

Zora Neale Hurston

What I must do is all that concerns me. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The bonds that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each others life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.

Richard Bach

Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!

Friedrich Nietzsche