Life Quotes

Charles f. kettering - my interest is in the future because i am going...
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
William James
As soon as there is life there is danger.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude (1870)
Life without a friend is death without a witness.
Danish prove
Booker t. washington - there is no power on earth that can neutralize...
Eleanor roosevelt, my day - people grow through experience if they meet life...
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
William Shakespeare, Julius Caesa
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men seek but one thing in life - Their pleasure.
W. Somerset Maugham
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is thank you, that would suffice.
Meister Eckhart
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
Norman Cousins
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Zarya, 1994
You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montanta, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time.
George Carlin, You Are All Diseased
No man is truly great, who is great only in his life - Time. The test of greatness is the page of history.
William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, But rather that it shall never have a beginning.
John Henry Newman
One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life.
Anatole France
A good life is a series of joyful meetings and joyful moments.
Francis Bacon
I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence.
Bertrand Russell, "Why I am Not a Christian".
Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.
David Letterman
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
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things.
Albert Einstein
Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living.
Juvenal
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.
Harry S. Truman
The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
Confucius
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
Seneca, Epistulae Morales
Dreams are real while they last. Can we say more of life.
Henry Havelock Ellis
Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created.
Anonymous
If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.
Confucius, Analects, XIV. 12
The quality of American life must keep pace with the quantity of American goods. This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.
John F. Kennedy
My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.
James Dean
Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.
Mary Cholmondeley
Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.
Germaine Gree
For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.
Alice Kahn
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
Leo Tolstoy
Life is tragic for those who have plenty to live on and nothing to live for.
Author Unknown
Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.
Charles Scribner, Jr.
succes is quest that will take me a life time to for fill but it is worth the wait.
Teddy Carroll
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
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was time when we were not this gives us no concern - - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be.
William Hazlitt