Life Quotes

Cato the elde - we cannot control the evil tongues of others but...
I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.
Detronius Arbite
Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.
Charles Scribner, Jr.
We learn not in the school, but in life.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lewis carroll - it is one of the great secrets of life that those...
It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.
Jimmy Buffet, Tales Form Margaritaville
As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something.
Hagar the Horrible
Every person, all the events of your life are drawn there because you have them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
Richard Bach
One life - A little gleam of Time between two Eternities.
Thomas Carlyle
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
A good book is the precious life - Blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.
John Milton
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person.
Dr. David M. Burns
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Sir Winston Churchill
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
Nathan Hale, last words, 22 September 1776
What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?
George Eliot
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Josh Billings
He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.
Tieck
There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.
Jim Davis
You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montanta, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time.
George Carlin, You Are All Diseased
I slept and dreamed that life was beauty. I awoke - - And found that life was duty.
Ellen Stugis Hoope
Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.
Richard M. DeVos
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.
Henry Stimson
I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being.
Richard Milhous Nixon
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
Edmund Spenser, 1590
Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
Cicero
We hold these truths to be self - Evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments a.
Thomas Jefferson
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Charles Kingsley
Very little is needed to make a happy life.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
Nobel prize money is a lifebelt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.
George Bernard Shaw
The things that will destroy America are prosperity - At - Any - Price, safety - First instead of duty - First, the love of soft living, and the get - Rich - Quick theory of life.
Theodore Roosevelt
Imagine there? s no countries, it isn? t hard to do; nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace.
John Lennon, Imagine
Life is playfulness... we need to play so that we can rediscover the magical around us.
Flora Colao
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
All life is an experiment. The more experiments yoiu make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
Henry David Thoreau
Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.
Albert Schweitze
The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.
The Divine Pymande
Get pleasure out of life... as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Sol Hurok