Life Quotes

J danforth quayle - i pledge allegiance to the christian flag and to...
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
John Patrick
I have no life, just e - Mail.
Michael Jantze, The Norm (Daily Comic Strip)
Seneca, epistles - if we let things terrify us, life will not be...
Death hath so many doors to let out life.
John Fletcher, The Custom of the Country (1647)
Life offers two great gifts - - Time, and the ability to choose how we spend it. Planning is a process of choosing among those many options. If we do not choose to plan, then we choose to have others plan for us.
Richard I. Winword
Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.
Thornton Wilde
This is the reason we cannot complain of lifeit keeps no one against his wll.
Seneca
A word out of season may mar a whole lifetime.
Greek Prove
We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.
George Farquha
What kind of man would live a life without daring Is life so sweet that we should criticize men that seek adventure Is there a better way to die.
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
James Truslow Adams
With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Karl poppe - there is no history of mankind, there are only...
The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.
Edward Irving Koch
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
Nathan Hale, last words, 22 September 1776
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day
To know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
Ralph Emerson
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it at the end?
Madame de Maintenon
The stream of thought flows on but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.
William James
Remember this - That there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
Jack London, The Call of the Wild
The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun - Illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?
Edwin Markham
You can get everything in life you want if you help enough other people get what they want.
Zig Ziglar, See you at the Top
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Robert Darwin
Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.
Henry David Thoreau
If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.
Lawana Blackwell
In all the affairs of life, social as well as political, courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart.
Henry Clay
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
Carol Burnett
Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
Don Miguel Ruiz
The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college the task is to help him become a self - Educating man.
C. Wright Mills
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.
John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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
You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.
Jo Coudert, "Advice From A Failure".
We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
Arthur Ashe
Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.
Charles Spurgeon
Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, And know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, No coincidences, All events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Elizabeth Kubler - Ross
It was the most incredible thing that has ever happened to me in my life. It was as if you fired a 15 - Inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.
Ernest Rutheford