Life Quotes

Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.

Tom Masson

We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Maxwell Maltz, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucious

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

I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.

Nathan Hale

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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

Albert Schweitze

Life is a tragedy when seen in close - Up, but a comedy in long - Shot.

Charlie Chaplin

May you live every day of your life.

Jonathan Swift

Art does not imitate life. Art is much more powerful than that. Art brings life back. And it does it by exposing the secrets we all carry inside.

Jose Raul Bernardo, The Secret of the Bulls (Simon & Schuster, 1996

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

Bette Davis

I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.

Mohandas Ghandi

The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

Thomas Carlyle

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Marie Curie

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

Rachel Carson

But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain.

Lois McMaster Bujold

If life deals you lemons, why not go kill someone with the lemons maybe by shoving them down his throat.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Mary Cholmondeley

The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

Booker T. Washington

Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man.

Sir Theodore Martin

All life is an experiment. The more experiments yoiu make the better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

Erica Jong

No doubt there are other important things in life besides conflict, but there are not many other things so inevitably interesting. The very saints interest us most when we think of them as enganged in a conflict with the Devil.

Robert Lynd

Play is an essential function of the passage from immaturity to emotional maturity. Any individual without the opportunities for adequate play in early life will go on seeking them in the stuff of adult life.

Margaret Lowenfeld

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Charles Dickens

I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not and whether we believe in God or not. So, any prayer on my part is a conscious response to what God is already doing in my life.

Malcolm Boyd

succes is quest that will take me a life time to for fill but it is worth the wait.

Teddy Carroll

What do you do with a lifetime of work? Face it in the morning.

Iggy Pop

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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

If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.

Sigmund Freud, his essay on war & death

Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

John Christian Bovee

The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

James Truslow Adams

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.

John Updike

We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Thomas Jefferson