Life Quotes
If you have no confidence in yourself you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won before you have started.Marcus Garvey
Self - Reverence, self knowledge, self - Control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power.Lord Tennyson
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.Bertrand Russell
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.Henry David Thoreau
Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.William Faulkne
We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.Clarence Darrow
You can not gain peace by avoiding life.Virginia Woolf
Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel.Mary Asto
Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.Fran Lebowitz
If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.Leo Tolstoy
Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.Sir Walter Raleigh
Fortunately psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.Karen Horney
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.Henry David Thoreau
Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.Harry Emerson Fosdick
We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.H. G. Wells
Hatred paralyzes life love releases it. Hatred confuses life love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life love illumines it.Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.Mahatma Gandhi
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
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.Gilbert Highet
To know one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord Of the Rings, Book Four, Chapter One
The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.Oscar Wilde
Things happen according to the ordinary course of nature and the ordinary habits of life.California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence".
There are two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified.Carl Van Vechten
Nothing in life is static; it either gets better, or it gets worse.Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford - Mason, Thinking About Quality
States should have the right to enact... laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.George W. Bush, Gov. of Texas, state leading in executions
If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them.Kahlil Gibran
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
Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.Learned Hand
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.Voltaire
To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.Fritz Perls
Mighty are the winds of time, which sweep away the despair of a broken heart, which blow back the essence of life, which refresh the soul with yet another sweet countenance.Dax Ward
I wish you music to help with the burdens of life, and to help you release your happiness to others.Ludwig van Beethoven
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.Kingsley Amis, One Fat Englishman (1963)
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.Booker T. Washington
