Life Quotes

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

Ellen Glasgow

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

W. Somerset Maugham

In the next year or so, my signature will appear on 60 billion of United States currency. More important to me, however, is the signature that appears on my life - The strong, proud, assertive handwriting of a loving father and mother.

Katherine D. Ortega

If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is thank you, that would suffice.

Meister Eckhart

If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.

Confucius, Analects, XIV. 12

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

Abbie M. Dale

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course a quiet conscience.

Euripides

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but that mark of a fake messiah.

Richard Bach

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

Booker T. Washington

A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.

Lucius Accius

Seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives rest of the heart.

Hannah Whitall Smith

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Growth is the only evidence of life.

John Henry Newman

If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - Although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.

Confucius

Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

George Santayana

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong - - Because someday you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carve

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

A word out of season may mar a whole lifetime.

Greek Prove

This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.

Susan Polis Schutz

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.

Victor Hugo

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

Kurt Vonnegut, Sirens of Titan

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage - - It can be delightful.

George Bernard Shaw

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

Norman Cousins

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Johann von Goethe

One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus

Peter Not everyone is meant to make a difference. But for me, the choice to lead an ordinary life is no longer an option.

Spider - Man

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

Horace

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Robert Frost

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

Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm.

Jean Paul Richte

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

Woody Allen

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech, April 2, 1957

In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people. Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.

Edward Morgan Forste

It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.

Vida D. Scudde

I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight silence would teach him the joys of sound.

Hellen Kelle

People find life entirely too time - Consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

Elizabeth II