Life Quotes

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993

Higher emotions are what separate us from the lower orders of life... Higher emotions, and table manners.

Deanna Troi, _Imzadi_, Star Trek - The Next Generation

Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.

Kahlil Gibran

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

Arthur Rubinstein

I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.

Vince Lombardi, Lombardi Winning is the only thing (by Jerry Kramer)

As is a tale, so is life not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1, 000 days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

John F. Kennedy, inaugural address, 1961

It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength.

Frank Duff, A Coder in Courierland, 03 - 20 - 05

Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.

John Tyndall

Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my world made new. I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment - - This day - - Is as good as any moment in all eternity. I shall make of this day - - Each moment of this day - - A heaven on earth. This is my day of opportunity.

Dan Custe

Life is a dream from which we must wake before we can dream again.

Robert Jordan, The Fires of Heaven

I honestly believe that in my lifetime we will see a country once again governed by Christians... and Christian values. What Christians have got to do is take back this country, one precinct at a time, one neighborhood at a time, and one state at a time.

Ralph Reed, Executive Director, the Christian Coalition

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife, Throughout the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life, Is worth an age without name.

Thomas Osbert Mordaunt

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

Pablo Picasso

What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story, And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Life is a Dream

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

Soren Kierkegaard

Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.

Gloria Swanson

One thing is clear to me. You cant know everything youd like to know. You cant do everything youd like to do. You cant read everything youd like to read. You must hold onto some things and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons of this life.

Real Live Preache

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

George Bernard Shaw

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Henry Ford

Life without music would be a mistake.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.

Gene Oliver, Life and the Artistry of Change

Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end - Result. Think of the elation, the satisfaction, the joy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the desired goal into view.

Grace Speare

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

I have found it difficult to endear myself to those who could best positively affect the quality of my life.

Eli Khamarov

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.

Gordon William Allport

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

George Eliot

Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.

P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy Money

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

Mark Twain

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore, we are saved by love.

Reinhold Niebuh

Blindness and error can change a life as surely as judgment and reason can.

M. Morris

The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

William James

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Samuel Butle

I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

Frances Willard

In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities.

Aristotle

There is only one success - To be able to spend your life in your own way.

Unknown

Life is beautiful. Life is sad.

Vladimir Nabakov, Lolita

Art does not imitate life. Art is much more powerful than that. Art brings life back. And it does it by exposing the secrets we all carry inside.

Jose Raul Bernardo, The Secret of the Bulls (Simon & Schuster, 1996