Life Quotes

Lu yen - the secret of the magic of life consists in using...
Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
Chief Seattle
I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
Nathan Hale
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.
Jimmy Carte
William frank buckley, jr. - i mean to live my life an obedient man, but...
Erich fromm - to hope means to be ready at every moment for...
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
Nathan Hale, last words, 22 September 1776
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Plato, Dialogues, Apology
Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
Sophocles
Nothing in life is static; it either gets better, or it gets worse.
Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford - Mason, Thinking About Quality
Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.
Jane E. Brody
Distance lasts a day. But reality lasts a lifetime.
Dr. Laura Schlessinger, The Dr. Laura radio show
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Actions have consequences... first rule of life. And the second rule is this - You are the only one responsible for your own actions.
Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992
I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.
Meryl Streep
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea And love is a thing that can never go wrong And I am Marie of Roumania.
Dorothy Parke
We trained very hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form into teams we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.
Gaius Petronius
It ever has been since time began, And ever will be, till time lose breath, That love is a mood - No more - To a man, And love to a woman is life or death.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something.
Johann von Goethe
What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.
Edward Bulwer - Lytton
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech, April 2, 1957
Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.
Buddha
The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.
Carolyn Heilbrun
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
Sallust
God, I offer myself to Thee, to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy power, Thy love and Thy way of life. May I do Thy will always. Amen.
Alcoholics Anonymous Praye
The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.
George Santayana
He is the better equipped for life. As for swimming, who has the less to carry.
Apuleius
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
Paul Gauguin
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Samuel Butle
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
James Barrie
Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee.
W. C. Fields
If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered.
Stephen Hawking, Interview with The Guardian (UK) September 27, 2005
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo
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 for something that will outlast it.
William James
Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Lorime
The unexamined life is not worth living to a human.
Attributed by Plato to Socrates, "Apology".
When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.
Geoffrey F. Abert