Life Quotes

Life is action and passion therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life imitates art more than art imitates life.

Oscar Wilde

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

Juvenal

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleano

Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.

Dave Barry

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

Charlotte bronte, Jane Eyre, page 62

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.

Bible, New Testament, James, Chapter 1, Verse 12

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

Robert Frost

There are three things that are important in human life. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind.

Henry James

Number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number.

Maurice Druon

Life is consciousness.

Emmet Fox

To affect the quality of the day that is the art of life.

Henry David Thoreau

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".

Is there life before death?

Graffito, in Belfast

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

Carl Sagan

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

Edith Hamilton

You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.

John Updike, Rabbit Redux

Life is a bitch get use to her or else she will make you pay for having her.

Mohammad Haroon

Life is a promise fulfill it.

Mother Theresa

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

William James

Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

William Shakespeare

Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them.

Albert Schweitze

But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.

Martha Nussbaum, O Magazine, November 2003

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.

Dave Barry

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Plutarch

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1890

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Henry Mille

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.

Les Brown

General Grant had a simple, childlike recipe for meeting life... I am terribly afraid, but the other fellow is afraid, too.

Sherwood Anderson

Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

George Bernard Shaw

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.

Henry L. Stimson

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

William James