Life Quotes

Perhaps each life has one sensational thought, if acted upon will bring great meaning.

Michael R. Bae

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

Arthur Ashe

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Chauncey Depew

Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding and that there is always tomorrow.

Dorothy Thompson

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do not fear the inevitable death for it is certain. Instead I fear life for here anything is possible.

Mavette Sadile

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

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

Seneca, Epistles

In all the affairs of life, social as well as political, courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart.

Henry Clay

If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes, values, and fantasies on everyday life.

Eric Hoffe

If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.

Leo Tolstoy

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.

Brittany Murphy, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003

Life is pretty simple You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

Thomas Peters

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

E. M. Forste

Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame.

MG Siriam

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Maxim Gorky

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau

There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the general rule.

Samuel Butle

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

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

One should count each day a separate life.

Seneca

Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

George Bernard Shaw

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

Nelson Henderson

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the currents of life, is without trouble.

Carl Gustav Jung

A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

John Milton

A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Northern Lights, 1993

Life is a tale told by an idiot - - Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

William Shakespeare

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

Jean Paul Richte

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

Epictetus

Peter Who am I You sure you want to know The story of my life is not for the faint of heart. If somebody said it was a happy little tale... if somebody told you I was just your average ordinary guy, not a care in the world... somebody lied.

Spider - Man

Be alert to give service. What counts a great deal in life is what we do for others.

Anonymous

If you give a man a fish, he will have a single meal. If you teach him how to fish, he will eat all his life.

Kwan - Tzu

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Helen Keller, The Open Door (1957)