Life Quotes

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

Unknown

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

James F. Byrnes

The key to immortality is first to live a life worth remembering.

Bruce Lee, Film: (Dragon The Bruce Lee Story. Quotation posted at end of film just before credits)

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

Eli Khamarov

A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic - Latern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.

Johann von Goethe

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.

Norman Douglas

Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.

Richard M. DeVos

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

Bertrand Russell

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

Nathan Hale

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

Stella Adle

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.

John Harold

A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Fred Allen

It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Charles Dudley

If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again.

Mary Beth Danielson

It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine - Tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain mired in medieval debates about angels on the head of a pin and animals in the belly of an Ark.

Michael Sherme

The evening of a well spent life brings its lamps with it.

Jeseph Joubert

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

I wish you music to help with the burdens of life, and to help you release your happiness to others.

Ludwig van Beethoven

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

Maya Angelou

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

Meryl Streep

It is better to die standing on your feet, than live the rest of your life on your knees.

Emiliano Zapata

Life is playfulness... we need to play so that we can rediscover the magical around us.

Flora Colao

To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - This is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed.

Sir Walter Scott

I have learned this at least by my experiment: if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Mahatma Gandhi

Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.

Gloria Swanson

Life is full of obstacle illusions.

Grant Frazie

The Night has a thousand eyes, And the Day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.

Francis William Bourdillon

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.

Henry Stimson

What kind of man would live a life without daring Is life so sweet that we should criticize men that seek adventure Is there a better way to die.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.

Life is pain, highness Anyone who says differently is selling something.

William Goldman

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Rabindranath Tagore

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1890

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

Cicero

Is life worth living? Yes, so long As there is wrong to right.

Alfred Austin

Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill