Life Quotes

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and to hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.

H. T. Leslie

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

Dorothy Day

Life is divided into three terms - That which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.

William Wordsworth

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Johann von Goethe

Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

Chief Seattle

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Sydney Smith

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.

Ayn Rand

What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping to produce the major achievement of your life.

Srully D. Blotnick

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Berthald Auerbach

Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.

Arthur Helps

It is a brave act of valor to condemn death, but where life is more terrible than death it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

Sir Thomas Brown

Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.

H. S. Thompson

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.

Alen Coren

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 can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

Albert Camus

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

W. Somerset Maugham

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

Spare minutes are the Gold - Dust of time; the portions of life most fruitful in good and evil; the gaps through which temptations enter.

Author Unknown

If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - - My youth.

Sara Teasdale

For 10 years of my life, 3 times a day, I thanked the Lord for what I was about to receive and thanked him again for what I had just received, and then we lost touch and I suddenly thought, where is he now

Tom Stoppard

Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.

Michael J. Gel

Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

Hubert Humphrey

However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

Henry David Thoreau

Count your life by smiles, not tears. Count your age by friends, not years.

Unknown

Seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives rest of the heart.

Hannah Whitall Smith

What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

Bank on a life, saving towards the certainty of change Ledger all the happiness, pencil in to rearrange Withdraw all the worry Deposit all the faith Compound all the experience and Recognize when the payment is late.

Unknown

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Stephen Butler Leacock

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

Edith Hamilton

There isnt much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you arent really living without it.

Real Live Preache

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Helen Keller, The Open Door (1957)

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Joseph Addison