Life Quotes

Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.

Christiane Northrup, M. D.

Life is going to give you just what you put into it. Put your whole heart in everything you do.

Vivian Baxte

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitze

Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.

Annie Besant

We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - Your ideal of what you long to attain - The ideal of health, efficiency, success.

Orison Swett Marden

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

Erica Jong, O Magazine, 2003

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Frank Gelett Burgess

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

George Bernard Shaw

No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.

Terry Josephson

There is only one happiness in life, to love and to be loved.

George Sand

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.

Les Brown

Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful - - A thought that is love.

Mary Manin Morrissey

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.

Albert Einstein

Education is life itself.

John Dewey

A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.

Quoted by Benjamin Franklin, Pearls of Wisdom, by Jerome Agel and Walter D. Glanze

Real life is, to most men, a long second - Best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.

Bertrand Russell

His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!

William Shakespeare

What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.

Karl Kraus

Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.

John Tyndall

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

Sir Laurence Kerr Olivie

A lifetime of happiness No man alive could bear it it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

Believe in life Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life.

W. E. B. Du Bois

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

Booker T. Washington

Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist.

Rene Angelil

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

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Victor Hugo

If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death No death may be called futile.

Yukio Mishima

Are you bored with life Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Dale Carnegie

The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college the task is to help him become a self - Educating man.

C. Wright Mills

Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!

Edwin Louis Cole

Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Ezra Loomis Pound

Imagine there? s no countries, it isn? t hard to do; nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace.

John Lennon, Imagine

There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - To do nothing at all.

Sydney Smith

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

David Grayson