Life Quotes

Confucius, the confucian analects - the man who in view of gain thinks of...
Creation is a better means of self - Expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.
Vida D. Scudde
G. hoppe - life was simple before world war ii. after that,...
Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test.... Peace comes through hope.
James E. Faust
I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.
William Frank Buckley, Jr.
I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my world made new. I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment - - This day - - Is as good as any moment in all eternity. I shall make of this day - - Each moment of this day - - A heaven on earth. This is my day of opportunity.
Dan Custe
There is only one success - To be able to spend your life in your own way.
Unknown
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Gagehot
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
Robert Orben
Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
Karen Kaiser Clark
Dost thou love life? Than do not squander time, for it is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin
There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome - To be got over.
Arthur Schopenhaue
Self - Reverence, self knowledge, self - Control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power.
Lord Tennyson
You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
Jane Fonda
That was and still is the great disaster of my life - That lovely, lovely little boy.
Dwight D Eisenhowe
We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.
Alan Chadwick
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple.
Eugene Kennedy
The wisest keeps something of the vision of a child. Though he may understand a thousand things that a child could not understand, he is always a beginner, close to the original meaning of life.
John Macy
In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people. Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.
Edward Morgan Forste
He is the better equipped for life. As for swimming, who has the less to carry.
Apuleius
One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
Rita Mae Brown
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1950)
Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living.
Juvenal
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
Vernon Howard
It is a lovely thing to have a husband and wife developing together and having the feeling of falling in love again. That is what marriage really means helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.
Paul Tournie
Unfortunate is he who cannot gain a few sincere friends during his life and more unfortunate is the one who has gained them and then lost them through his deeds.
Hazrat Ali Ibn - E - Abi Talib, Nahj - Ul - Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
James Barrie
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
Christiane Northrup, M. D.
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore, we are saved by love.
Reinhold Niebuh
It? s never too late?? in fiction or in life?? to revise.
Nancy Thaye
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy When work is a duty, life is slavery.
Maxim Gorky
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
Seneca
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Marie Curie
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.
Luke Rhinehart
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Robert Darwin
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
Charlotte bronte, Jane Eyre, page 62