Life Quotes

Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.

Charles M. Schulz

There is no wealth but life.

John Ruskin

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

Anthony Trollope

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

Mary McLeod Bethune

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

Old Indian saying

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

As soon as there is life there is danger.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude (1870)

People find life entirely too time - Consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".

Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to love what makes life worth having.

Juvenal

Number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number.

Maurice Druon

Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery Forbid it, Almighty God I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.

Patrick Henry

The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.

William James

Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.

John Burroughs

There is no one, no matter how wise he is, who has not in his youth said things or done things that are so unpleasant to recall in later life that he would expunge them entirely from his memory if that were possible.

Marcel Proust

Yea, though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me... Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me throughout the rest of my life and i will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

Bible, Psalm 23, New Testament

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

H. G. Wells

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

William Osle

Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Johann von Goethe

Life is unbearable, but death is not so pleasant either.

Assyrian Prove

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.

Richard Bach

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

Robert A. Heinlein

I honestly believe that in my lifetime we will see a country once again governed by Christians... and Christian values. What Christians have got to do is take back this country, one precinct at a time, one neighborhood at a time, and one state at a time.

Ralph Reed, Executive Director, the Christian Coalition

I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people.

Mary S. Calderone

I only regret that I have one life to lose for my country.

Nathan Hale

The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

David Starr Jordan

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint - Exupery

Life is 10 what you make it, and 90 how you take it.

Irving

Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life.

W. E. B. Du Bois, last message to the world, 1957

When you determined what you want, you have made the most important decision of your life. You have to know what you want in order to attain it.

Douglas Lurtan

Hatred paralyzes life love releases it. Hatred confuses life love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life love illumines it.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I love life because what more is there.

Anthony Hopkins

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.

Jimmy Carte

A good life is a series of joyful meetings and joyful moments.

Francis Bacon