Life Quotes

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

Theodore Isaac Rubin

It is a lovely thing to have a husband and wife developing together and having the feeling of falling in love again. That is what marriage really means helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournie

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield, "Window in Bye Street", 1912

Life goes on within you and without you.

George Harrision, From the song "Within you without you" from Sgt Peppe

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)

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

George Eliot

Change is the law of life; and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

John F. Kennedy

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

I never saw an ugly thing in my life for let the form of an object be what it may - Light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

John Constable

What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping to produce the major achievement of your life.

Srully D. Blotnick

Life is not lost by dying life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth.

M. Scott Peck

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Joseph Addison

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.

Burton Hills

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

Michael Johnson

Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something.

Johann von Goethe

Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

Edith Newbold Jones Wharton

Saying we should keep the two - Party political system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts.

Eugene McCarthy

A life spent making mistakes is not only most honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Unknown

Life is like a ten - Speed bike; most of us have gears we never use.

Charles M. Schulz

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

Johann von Goethe

Sing Ho! For the life of a Bear!

Winnie - The - Pooh by A. A. Milne

Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish.

Homer, The Iliad

Let us forever forget that every station in life is necessarily that each deserves our respect; that not the station itself; but the worthy fulfillment of its duties does honor the man.

Mary Lyon

Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.

Bruce Lee

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Kermit Eby

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 are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning.

Christopher Morley

Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.

Thich Nhat Hanh

The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.

Lewis Grizzard

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

Richard Burton

It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.

Kingsley Amis, One Fat Englishman (1963)

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

Florence Nightingale

Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Fran Lebowitz, Social Studies (1981)

Remember that life is not measured in hours but in accomplishments.

James A. Pike