Life Quotes

Give not over thy soul to sorrow and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.

Ecclesiastes

Life is like a piano... what you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Unknown

Life is what happens while you are making other plans.

John Lennon

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Nothing in life is static; it either gets better, or it gets worse.

Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford - Mason, Thinking About Quality

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

Horace

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.

Thomas Jefferson

Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it a charm.

Jean Paul Richte

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.

Albert Einstein

States should have the right to enact... laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

George W. Bush, Gov. of Texas, state leading in executions

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman.

Woody Allen

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

Herbert Spence

Blame someone else and get on with your life.

Alan Woods

Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.

David Letterman

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

Samuel Smiles

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.

Thomas Jefferson

A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited.

Osho, The art of Dying

For any woman to success in American life she must first do two things Prepare herself for a profession, and marry a man who wants her to succeed as much as she does.

Cathleen Douglas

If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

I wish you all the good and charm that life can offer. Think of me kindly, and rest assured that no one would more rejoice to hear of your happiness.

Ludwig van Beethoven

What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

Crowfoot

Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sweat of their brows or the blood of their hearts.

Kahlil Gibran

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

Ellen Glasgow

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Natural History of Intellect (1893)

the tragedy of life is not that we die, but is rather, what dies inside a man while he lives.

Albert Schweitze

Gossip is always a personal confession of malice or imbecility; it is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are neighborhoods where it rages like a pest; churches are split in pieces by it, and neighbor made enemies for life. Let the young avoid or cure it while they may.

Jack Holland

When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.

Geoffrey F. Abert

The secret to life is that there is no secret.

"Swampman" on Quartz

Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.

Henry David Thoreau

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Fulton John Sheen

I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense.

Rabbi Harold Kushne

Sometimes I would rather that people take away years from my life Than take away a moment.

Pearl Bailey

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie

My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.

James Dean

Mine honour is my life both grow in one take honour from me and my life is done.

William Shakespeare

There are two things I know about life... Only the good die young but the real jerks will live forever.

Lewis Black, "Black on Broadway" (2004)

Life was made to be enjoyed as well as endured.

Unknown