Life Quotes

Gene roddenberry - a man either lives life as it happens to him,...
We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
US Declaration of Independence
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things.
Benjamin Franklin
There is only one success - To be able to spend your life in your own way.
Unknown
Edward bulwer - lytton - what a mistake to suppose that the passions are...
Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure Is there a better way to die.
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
A fanatic is one compelled to action by the need to find a strong meaning in life. The fanatic determines for himself what role he is to play in life, and his intense devotion to a cause is the means.
Eugene E. Brussell
The great omission in American life is solitude... that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit.
Marya Mannes
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Traditional Indian Saying
As each child looks at the world through innocent eyes all they can see, Is the worlds way of life and the way they think their lives should be.
Kandice Hehner, Innocent Eyes
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
Nathan Hale, last words, 22 September 1776
There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.
Frederika Breme
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - - when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions - - It becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
Isaac Bashevis Singe
You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty - Four hours of unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.
Thomas Arnold Bennett
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
Hubert H. Humphrey
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
Unknown
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
Aristotle, Nicomachen Ethics (4th c. BC)
I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
Virginia Woolf, Diary, 17 February 1922
A word out of season may mar a whole lifetime.
Greek Prove
Life is like a piano... what you get out of it depends on how you play it.
Unknown
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Roosevelt, Eleano
We trained hard, but it seemed every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.
From Petronii Arbitri Satyricon AD 66 (Attributed to Gaius Petronus, a Roman General who later committed suicide)
There is a need for heroism in American life today.
Vicki Baum
True wisdom is seeing what is beneficial to your eternal life, and managing your life according to that. You do this when you not only know these things and grasp them with your understanding, but also will and do them.
Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Apocalypse Explained" #338
It is in your moments of decision that your life is shaped. Develop your decision - Making muscles.
Anthony Robbins
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this.
Henry David Thoreau
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
Robertson Davies
Must be out - Of - Doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.
Henry David Thoreau
I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.
Sir Laurence Olivie
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.
Nikki Giovanni
I cannot believe that the purpose of life is merely to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate. I think it is above all to matter, to count, to stand for something. To have it make some difference that you lived at all.
Leo Rosten
If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
The cost of a things is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Henry David Thoreau
While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead... While you do not know life, how can you know about death.
Confucius
This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.
Oswald Spengle
We are each responsible for our own life - No other person is or even can be.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
A different language is a different vision of life.
Federico Fellini