Life Quotes

The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.

Sallust

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life.

Henry David Thoreau

I detest life - Insurance agents they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

Stephen Leacock

Unless a life is activated by sustained purpose it can become a depressingly haphazard affair.

Richard Guggenheime

So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

Victor Hugo

Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 5.

A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.

Quoted by Benjamin Franklin, Pearls of Wisdom, by Jerome Agel and Walter D. Glanze

When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.

Geoffrey F. Abert

If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one Life the Aching, or cool one Pain, Or help one fainting Robin into his Nest again, I shall not live in Vain.

Emily Dickinson

All you touch and all you see, is all your life will ever be.

Roger Waters, Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon

Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.

Henry David Thoreau

The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.

Albert Einstein

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)

There are two things I know about life... Only the good die young but the real jerks will live forever.

Lewis Black, "Black on Broadway" (2004)

One path alone leads to a life of peace The path of virtue.

Juvenal

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitze

If you look for the positive things in life; you will find them.

Author Unknown

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x y is play and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure.

Piero Ferrucci

Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.

Bruce Lee

The hour which gives us life begins to take it away. - Hercules Furens.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.

Andre Malraux

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.

Alexandre Dumas, fils

So long as faith with freedom reigns And loyal hope survives, And gracious charity remains To leaven lowly lives; While there is one untrodden tract For intellect or will, And men are free to think and act, Life is worth living still.

Alfred Austin

Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.

Bill Vaughan

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, and to work, and to play and to look up at the stars.

Henry Van Dyke

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau

The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life.

R. A. Salvatore, The Crystal Shard

The universe is change our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death. on atomic energy.

Albert Einstein

Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.

Muriel Spark

Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phatasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.

Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz

I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious idea of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.

Thomas A. Edison

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

Helen Kelle

However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.

Henry David Thoreau