Life Quotes

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Dale Carnegie

Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught.

Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Fourth, Chapter 2

People who keep journals have life twice.

Jessamyn West

We trained very hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form 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.

Gaius Petronius

As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Benjamin Disraeli

Dost thou love life? Than do not squander time, for it is the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

Life is what happens while you are making other plans.

John Lennon

Before you were conceived I wanted you. Before you were born I loved you. Before you were here an hour I would die for you. This is the miracle of life.

Maureen Hawkins

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

Albert Camus

The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college the task is to help him become a self - Educating man.

C. Wright Mills

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

John Kenneth Galbraith, Guardian (London, 28 July 1989)

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Seneca

Sooner of later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Anatole France

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)

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family.

Joachim du Bellay

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers.

Earl Nightingale

Life is too brief. I had a friend whom I intended to know better. Yesterday he died.

David Grayson

It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine - Tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain mired in medieval debates about angels on the head of a pin and animals in the belly of an Ark.

Michael Sherme

The bonds that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each others life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.

Richard Bach

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Oscar Wilde

We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Speech to the graduating class at Harvard (1978)

In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.

Lydia Sigourney

All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

George Bernard Shaw

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

Hubert Humphrey

I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.

Anthony Burgess

The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

Confucius

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.

John Henry Cardinal Newman

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

Life is too important to take seriously.

Corky Siegel

Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.

Martin Luthe

A man may be a patriot without risking his own life or sacrificing his health. There are plenty of lives less valuable.

James Mellon, who paid $300 for a civil war Union army deferment

It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.

Archibald MacLeish

The only religious way to think of death is as a part and parcel of life to regard it, with the understanding and the emotions, as the inviolable condition of life.

Thomas Mann

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

Arthur Ashe