Life Quotes
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.Booker T. Washington
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
Hatred is toxic waste in the river of life.Micron
A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.Cicero
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.Buddha
At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.Oswald Mosley
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.George Eliot
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Epistle Dedicatory
The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.Sir Philip Sidney
No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.Harry Emerson Fosdick
Life is real Life is earnest And the grave is not its goal Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - - And in fact we have forgotten.Euripides
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.D. Elton Trueblood
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence - - And then success is sure.Mark Twain
Like the winds of the sea are the winds of fate As we voyage along through life, Tis the set of the soul That decides its goal And not the calm or the strife.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.Angela Schwindt
Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say let speech harmonize with life.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.Unknown
April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory out of desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, coveringEarth in a forgetful snow, feedingA little life with dried tubers.T. S. Eliot
It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.Hubert H. Humphrey
Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.Samuel Smiles
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.Hubert Humphrey
Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. We did not weave the web of life We are merely a strand in it. What we do with the web, we do to ourselves...Chief Seattle
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.Igor Stravinsky
Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.H. S. Thompson
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.Victor Hugo
Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men their wars, their concentration camps, their justice.Marcel Ayme
Distance lasts a day. But reality lasts a lifetime.Dr. Laura Schlessinger, The Dr. Laura radio show
Life is the childhood of our immortality.Johann von Goethe
Reality continues to ruin my life.Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - At the age of fifty, say - That a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about... It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, 1977
And if it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, the only dream that mattered had come true. In this life, I was loved by you.Colin Raye
The life of the law has not been logic but experience.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Life..... is a series of dogs.George Carlin
The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.Hermann Hesse
This is the true joy in life - - Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one...George Bernard Shaw
