Life Quotes

The real tradegy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort - He never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.

Arnold Bennett

The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

James Truslow Adams

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

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly combat.

Plato

Life is full of obstacle illusions.

Grant Frazie

I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal.

Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun

It? s never too late?? in fiction or in life?? to revise.

Nancy Thaye

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

Martin Luther King

If I can stop one heart from breaking, If I can ease one pain, Then my life will not have been in vain.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.

Che

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

Charles Dudley

When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break.

Akhenaton

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

Susan Sontag

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye.

Thomas Jefferson

Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

Erica Jong

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

Woody Allen

Life - The way it really is - Is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.

Joseph Brodsky

You can get everything in life you want if you help enough other people get what they want.

Zig Ziglar, See you at the Top

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

Nathan Hale

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, The Lord Of the Rings, Book Four, Chapter One

It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.

Archibald MacLeish

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

Wayne W Dye

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, I used everything you gave me.

Erma Bombeck

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Anais Nin, "Winter of Artifice".

My life is very crazy and busy, but I love it that way.

Hilary Duff

I take a simple view of life keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Sir Laurence Kerr Olivie

Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.

John Updike

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Jean Paul Friedrich Richte

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

George Santayana

There are three intolerable things in life - Cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.

Orson Welles

In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people. Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.

Edward Morgan Forste

In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

S. I. Hayakawa

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

Booker T. Washington

In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.

Mrs. Sigourney

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

Okakura Kakuzo

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo

Death is a veil which those who live call life, Sleep and it is lifted.

Percy B. Shelley