Life Quotes

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Marcus Aurelius
Life is unbearable, but death is not so pleasant either.
Assyrian Prove
Karl barth - conscience is the perfect interpreter of life....
Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.
Isaac Asimov
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving.
Rosalind Russell, as Aunti Mame
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
W. Somerset Maugham
As a well - Spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks
Richard bach - it is by not always thinking of yourself, if you...
Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.
Learned Hand
Sir francis bacon - choose the life that is most useful, and habit...
There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
William Shakespeare
One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander A. Bogomoletz
Life is a long lesson in humility.
James M. Barrie
A good life is a series of joyful meetings and joyful moments.
Francis Bacon
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away. - Hercules Furens.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Remember this - That there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
Walter Scott
Art is long, life short judgment difficult, opportunity transient.
Johann von Goethe
Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.
Friedrich Nietzche
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life.
Chinese Prove
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
Alfred North Whitehead
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
Montesquieu
It is one of the great secrets of life that those things which are most worth doing, we do for others.
Lewis Carroll
On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions it is the best refreshment on the journey and it is the greatest property.
Buddha
Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sweat of their brows or the blood of their hearts.
Kahlil Gibran
We cannot control the evil tongues of others but a good life enables us to disregard them.
Cato the Elde
Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
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 and sun.
Henry Van Dyke
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 ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do.
Phillips Brooks
Just as the sand - Dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.
Thornton Wilde
Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably togethe.
Clyde Kluckhohn
A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.
Vince Lombardi
To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.
Alen Coren
Life is a continual upgrade.
J. Mark Wallace
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
Dr. Robert Schulle
Actions have consequences... first rule of life. And the second rule is this - You are the only one responsible for your own actions.
Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992