Life Quotes

Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life.

Author Unknown

Be still sad heart and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining, Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life a little rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.

Longfellow

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

Wilma Rudolph, "Wilma: The Story of Wilma Rudolph".

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for good.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

Juvenal, Satires

We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnible, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.

Randolph Bourne

If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.

Leo Tolstoy

The goal of all life is death.

Sigmund Freud

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

Cynthia Ozick, O Magazine, September 2002

Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

Evelyn Underhill

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

Douglas Adams

The bonds that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each others life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.

Richard Bach

There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - To do nothing at all.

Sydney Smith

Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.

Annie Besant

I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.

Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes the whole universe for a vast practical joke.

Herman Melville

Anybody who accepts mediocrity - In school, on the job, in life - Is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises.

Charles Knight

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting.

Alan John Percivale Taylo

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

Nathan Hale, last words, 22 September 1776

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Jewish Prove

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

False enchantment can last a lifetime.

W. H. Auden

God, I dont have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.

Real Live Preache

Senator, I am one of them. You do not seem to understand who I am. I am a black woman, the daughter of a dining - Car worker... If my life has any meaning at all, it is that those who start out as outcasts can wind up as being part of the system.

Patricia Roberts Harris

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

E. M. Forste

If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.

A. P. Gouthey

The unexamined life is not worth living for man.

Socrates, in Plato, Dialogues, Apology

A well written life is almost as rare as a well spent one.

Thomas Carlyle

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

Don Miguel Ruiz

Everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it and the imagination to improvise.

Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath

Life is an onion and one peels it crying.

French Prove

The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

Anatole France

Dont go through life, GROW through life.

Eric Butterworth

Rumor is not always wrong. - From Life of Agricola.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus

Don't think you are paying me some kind of tribute if you let my death become the great event of your life. The best tribute you can pay me as a mother is to go on and have a good and fulfilling life. Enjoy what you have.

Andrew Soloman, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, comments from his mother shortly before her suicide

Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.

Robert A. Heinlein, "If This Goes On".