Life Quotes

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

This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.

Oswald Spengle

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Johann von Goethe

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone.... The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.

W. Edwards Deming

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Mark Twain

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

Erik H. Erikson

American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralise every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good - will, complacency thoughtlessness, and optimism.

James Harvey Robinson

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.

Maurice Maeterlinck

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

Hubert Humphrey

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

David Russell

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. Quoting Churchill.

Ronald Reagan

Get pleasure out of life... as much as you can. Nobody every died from pleasure.

Sol Hurok

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside yourself.

Jacob Bigelow

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

Seneca

A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.

Walter Lippman

I know not, sir whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.

J. M. Barrie

Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

Chief Seattle

Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.

Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine

Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Sing Ho! For the life of a Bear!

Winnie - The - Pooh by A. A. Milne

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

Albert Camus

A different language is a different vision of life.

Federico Fellini

There is a need for heroism in American life today.

Vicki Baum

Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Unknown

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

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 strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carve

Live life to the fullest.

Ernest Hemingway

It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all about.

Oprah Winfrey, Oprah Magazine, May 2004

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

Nathan Hale, last words, 22 September 1776

Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Benjamin Disraeli

The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

George Bernard Shaw

Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves.

Marie Curie

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

Mark Twain