Life Quotes

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

Gilbert Highet

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

Charles Caleb Colton

It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.

Kingsley Amis, One Fat Englishman (1963)

Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test.... Peace comes through hope.

James E. Faust

I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.

Vince Lombardi, Lombardi Winning is the only thing (by Jerry Kramer)

The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.

William O. Douglas

The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.

W. S. Maugham, Of Human Bondage

We learn not in the school, but in life.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Frank Gelett Burgess

I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.

Samuel Butle

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.

Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in the Way of the merchant, in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.

Miyamoto Musashi

It violates right order whenever capital so employees the working or wage - Earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage without, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good.

Pope Pius XI

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.

Rachel Carson

Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something.

Johann von Goethe

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.

Henry James

There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good life is to live.

Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.

Marion Howard

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

Carol Burnett

To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - This is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed.

Sir Walter Scott

The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.

Berenson

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

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince, 2005

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.

Thomas Jefferson

There are men I could spend eternity with. but not this life.

Kathleen Norris

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

Thomas Mann

Custom is the great guide of human life.

David Hume

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling in them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

Richard E. Byrd

What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?

George Eliot

Not many can admit their fears, but those who can lead a fulfilling life of happiness knowing they hide nothing and need not to.

Cyrus Corteise

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.

G. M. Trevelyan, English Social History (1942)

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.

Charles Caleb Colton

Remember that life is not measured in hours but in accomplishments.

James A. Pike

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.

Lawrence George Durrell

Life..... is a series of dogs.

George Carlin

They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson