Life Quotes

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
Montesquieu
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
Brandon Lee
Eli khamarov - i have found it difficult to endear myself to...
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.
Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
What each must seek in his own life never was on land or sea. It is something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
Joseph Campbell
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Frank Lloyd Wright
When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
Samuel Johnson
Lois mcmaster bujold,
Life without the courage for death is slavery.
Seneca
Dag hammarskjold - life only demands from you the strength you...
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
Helen Kelle
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Marie Curie
I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.
Anthony Burgess
As is a tale, so is life not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Death hath so many doors to let out life.
John Fletcher, The Custom of the Country (1647)
Answer That you are here - - - That life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.
Walt Whitman
The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.
Grayson Kirk
Life is like an ice - Cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.
Charles M. Schulz, as "Charlie Brown", Peanuts, cartoon strip
Life is going to give you just what you put into it. Put your whole heart in everything you do.
Vivian Baxte
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
Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.
Douglas Pagels, A Wonderful Resolution For The New Year!
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
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight, very clean. When it arrives it is perfect. It puts itself in our hands. It hopes we learned something from yesterday.
Unknown, Epitaph on headstone of actor John Wayne (author unknown)
Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men their wars, their concentration camps, their justice.
Marcel Ayme
Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self confidence young. Keep your hope young.
Luella F. Phean
Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life.
Gottfried Reinhardt
It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
Katharine Butler Hathaway
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.
Lillian Dickson
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Berthald Auerbach
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves - - To break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.
Stewart B. Johnson
Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dreamFor the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real Life is earnestAnd the grave is not its goalDust thou art to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What kind of man would live a life without daring Is life so sweet that we should criticize men that seek adventure Is there a better way to die.
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carve
Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.
George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) act 2
Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; take honour from me and my life is done.
William Shakespeare
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Albert Einstein
One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.
Alcaeus
Is life worth living? Yes, so long As there is wrong to right.
Alfred Austin
The stream of thought flows on but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.
William James