Life Quotes

May you live every day of your life.

Jonathan Swift

The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.

Charles Peguy

In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, That is mine.

Abraham Kuype

The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized as the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment... both of individuals and of humanity.

Alfred Adle

Life is wasted on the living.

Douglas Adams

Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth.

M. Scott Peck

I have enjoyed greatly the second bloomingsuddenly you find - At the age of 50, say - That a whole new life has opened before you.

Agatha Christie

Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

Sometimes the only sense we can make out of life is a sense of humor.

American Greetings Card

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, I used everything you gave me.

Erma Bombeck

It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all about.

Oprah Winfrey, Oprah Magazine, May 2004

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life Overcome fear, behold wonder.

Aeschylus

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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)

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

James Truslow Adams

Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.

Al Capp

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.

William O. Douglas

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

Henry Ford

A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500.

Benjamin H. Brewste

In all the affairs of life, social as well as political, courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart.

Henry Clay

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

George Bernard Shaw

I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.

Martin Luthe

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Victor Hugo

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

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

Erica Jong, O Magazine, 2003

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head - On and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

Gene Roddenberry

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to seat 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

Californians invented the concept of life - Style. This alone warrants their doom.

Don DeLillo

None meet life honestly and few heroically.

Clarence Darrow

Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.

George Lorime

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

Muhammad Ali

Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them.

Albert Schweitze

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad, or peculiar.

Grace Paley

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe believe life it teaches better than book or orator.

Johann von Goethe

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

Ayn Rand