Life Quotes

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Shakespeare

Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all thy ways.

Akhenaton

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

D. H. Lawrence

He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.

Samuel Johnson

Blame someone else and get on with your life.

Alan Woods

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master - Gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

James Allen

As a well - Spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings a happy death.

Leonardo Da Vinci

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

Ellen Glasgow

Art is long, life short judgment difficult, opportunity transient.

Johann von Goethe

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Buddha

Remember this, very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

I am for integrity, if only because life is very short and truth is hard to come by.

Kermit Eby

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

Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.

David Searls

The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being.

Richard Milhous Nixon

The happiest moments of my life have a been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

Thomas Jefferson

There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

Alfred Korzybski

If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.

Seneca, Epistles

Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Sol Hurok

Live you life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift - There is nothing small about it.

Florence Nightingale

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery Forbid it, Almighty God I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.

Patrick Henry

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

Rebecca West

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.

Marie Curie

Actions have consequences... first rule of life. And the second rule is this - You are the only one responsible for your own actions.

Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992

There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.

Karl Poppe

A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vainthen have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system.

Robert A. Heinlein

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

George Bernard Shaw

But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.

Martha Nussbaum, O Magazine, November 2003

To know one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.

Sir Thomas Browne

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

Norman Cousins

I detest life - Insurance agents they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

Stephen Leacock

Surely a tired woman on her way to work at six in the morning on a subway deserves the right to get there safely. everyone who changes his or her life because of crime. have been denied a basic civil right.

George Herbert Walker Bush

I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.

Dave Barry

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.

Jennifer Jones

Whose life is it anyway?

Brian Clark, Play title