Life Quotes

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

Michael Johnson

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life - Style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

Hunter S. Thompson

Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.

George Santayana

Life is not advancement. It is growth. It does not move upward, but expands outward, in all directions.

Russell G. Alexande

Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.

David Letterman

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

William Osle

Suffering. We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

Anatole France

Blindness and error can change a life as surely as judgment and reason can.

M. Morris

I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.

Gustave Flaubert

Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.

Charles M. Schulz

A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.

Cicero

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

Arthur Rubinstein

Californians invented the concept of life - Style. This alone warrants their doom.

Don DeLillo

Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.

Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vainthen have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system.

Robert A. Heinlein

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

Sophocles

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Henry David Thoreau

Four things come not back - - The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.

Arabian Prove

Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living.

Juvenal

To really enjoy the better things in life, one must have first experienced the things they are better than.

Oscar Homolka

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

Bette Davis

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes the whole universe for a vast practical joke.

Herman Melville

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 Caesar", Act 4 scene 3

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The hour which gives us life begins to take it away. - Hercules Furens.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication.

Lord Byron, Don Juan

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Henry David Thoreau

Life is full of obstacle illusions.

Grant Frazie

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

William James

Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.

Tyron Edwards

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls.

Rob Brown

Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.

Jonathan Larson

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

Rene Descartes

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

I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.

Ronald Reagan, Nov. 5, 1994

A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500.

Benjamin H. Brewste