Life Quotes

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

Juvenal

Art is long, life short judgment difficult, opportunity transient.

Johann von Goethe

What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.

Max Nordau

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Andrew Carnegie

I wish you all the good and charm that life can offer. Think of me kindly, and rest assured that no one would more rejoice to hear of your happiness.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught.

Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Fourth, Chapter 2

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life.

Author Unknown

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.

Peter McWilliams

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

G. K. Chesterton

To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals.

Benjamin Franklin

For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.

Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties I

Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Andre Malraux

Life is short. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly.

Robert Doisneau

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others.

William Hazlitt

Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.

Luke Rhinehart

For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

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

Dorothy Day

At the close of life the question will be not how much have you got, but how much have you given nor how much have you won, but how much have you done not how much have you saved, but how much have you sacrificed how much have you loved and served, not how much were you honored.

Nathan C. Schaeffe

From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.

Joseph Addison

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

Woody Allen

Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.

Douglas Pagels, A Wonderful Resolution For The New Year!

Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self confidence young. Keep your hope young.

Luella F. Phean

Three things in human life are important the first is to be kind the second is to be kind and the third is to be kind.

Henry James

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true Cling to it long enough, and it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Robert Frost

Actions have consequences... first rule of life. And the second rule is this - You are the only one responsible for your own actions.

Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less than a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

States should have the right to enact... laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

George W. Bush, Gov. of Texas, state leading in executions

The happiest moments of my life have a been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

Thomas Jefferson

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

George Bernard Shaw

All life is an experiment. The more experiments yoiu make the better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things Knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Amelia Earhart

Life is a continual upgrade.

J. Mark Wallace