Life Quotes

It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep for your whole life.

Elizabeth Henry

It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see And in short measures, life may perfect be.

Benjamin Johnson

It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fea

Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

Margaret Fulle

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.

Robert Burns

In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Life is too short for a long story.

Mary Wortley Montagu

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Plato

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fortunately, psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself remains a very effective therapist.

Karen Horney

Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.

David Searls

I want to live my life so that my nights are full of regrets.

Fitzgerald

Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted in something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

Marie Curie

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

Arnold Toynbee

When you determined what you want, you have made the most important decision of your life. You have to know what you want in order to attain it.

Douglas Lurtan

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

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

Thomas Aquinas

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

Charles Dudley Warne

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

Life is beautiful. Life is sad.

Vladimir Nabakov, Lolita

Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode it is rather a life.

David Grayson

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Samuel Johnson

Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight - Lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.

Smiley Blanton

Security is an illusion. Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.

Kelle

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Albert Schweitze

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

Woody Allen

Words have a longer life than deeds.

Pindar, Nemean Odes

A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.

Vince Lombardi

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Henry Ford

Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm.

Jean Paul Friedrich Richte

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.

Life is too short to be sensible.

Unknown

High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad.

Barbara Kingsolver, "Life Without Go - Go Boots" (personal essay)

Life offers two great gifts - - Time, and the ability to choose how we spend it. Planning is a process of choosing among those many options. If we do not choose to plan, then we choose to have others plan for us.

Richard I. Winword

I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.

J. Frank Dobie, His tombstone in the Texas State Cemetery