Life Quotes

One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.

Alexander A. Bogomoletz

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies.

George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004

Jean Paul Sartre says in No Exit that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.

Alan Alda, GQ, Summer, 1980

Experience: A comb life gives you after you lose your hair.

Judith Stern

How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carve

We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up 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.

Caius Petronius, Roman Consul, 66 A. D.

To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.

Abbie M. Dale

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

Will Rogers, New York TImes, Apr. 29, 1930

None meet life honestly and few heroically.

Clarence Darrow

Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.

Frank Herbert, Chenoeh: "Coversations with Leto II".

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

Benjamin Franklin

When we can say no not only to things that are wrong and sinful, but also to things pleasant, profitable, and good which would hinder and clog our grand duties and our chief work, we shall understand more fully what life is worth, and how to make the most of it.

Charles A. Stoddard

The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.

John Updike

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Sir Francis Bacon

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

George Bernard Shaw

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Samuel Butle

Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.

Luke Rhinehart

Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not. knows no release from little things.

Amelia Earhart Putnam

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - Or are they holding you back.

Clement Stone

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love replused - But it returneth.

Percy B. Shelley

Look to this day For it is life, the very life of life. For yesterday is but a dream And tomorrow is only a vision But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness And tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day Such is the salutation of the dawn.

Kalidasa

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight, very clean. When it arrives it is perfect. It puts itself in our hands. It hopes we learned something from yesterday.

Unknown, Epitaph on headstone of actor John Wayne (author unknown)

Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

Henry David Thoreau

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master - Gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

James Allen

I, on the other hand, have a degree from the University of Life, a diploma from the School of Hard Knocks, and three gold stars from the Kindergarten of Getting the Shit Kicked Out of Me.

Captain Edmund Blackadder, Blackadder Goes Forth

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.

Aristotle

Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

David Starr Jordan

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Natural History of Intellect (1893)

What kind of man would live a life without daring Is life so sweet that we should criticize men that seek adventure Is there a better way to die.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.

There are two things to aim at in life first, to get what you want and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Logan Pearsall Smith

May you live every day of your life.

Jonathan Swift

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

Alfred Hitchcock

Life is a tough proposition and the first hundred years are the hardest.

Wilson Mizne

Live a life as a monument to your soul.

Ayn Rand

Age, health, and stage in life have nothing to do with serving or not serving. In each season of life there are attributes and qualities of life and experience that God values in service.

Bruce Kempe

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Seneca

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Friedrich Nietzsche