Life Quotes

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break.

Akhenaton

Let the stronger man give to the man whose need is greater let him gaze upon the lengthening path of life. For riches roll like the wheels of a chariot, turning from one to another.

Rig Veda

There are two sorts of curiosity - - The momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.

Robert Lynd

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.

Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Robert Frost, The Black Cottage

We learn not in the school, but in life.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.

Walter Scott

As a well - Spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

Muriel Spark

Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.

Dr. Robert Schulle

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Dr. Robert Schulle

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

The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.

Mary Catherine Bateson

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

Sandra Carey

Life, at best, is completely unpredictable.

Chrisopher Walken

Life - The way it really is - Is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.

Joseph Brodsky

Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.

Euripedes, Medea

Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

Edith Newbold Jones Wharton

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

George Eliot

One hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, how big my house was, or what kind of car I drove. But the world may be a little better, because I was important in the life of a child.

Forest Witcraft

The life of the law has not been logic but experience.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

We trained hard, but it seemed that 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.

Caius Petronius, Roman Consul, 66 A. D.

Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.

Robert A. Heinlein, "If This Goes On".

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

Juvenal

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

My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.

Ayn Rand

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

Life is as tedious as a twice - Told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare, "King John", Act 3 scene 4

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

Okakura Kakuzo

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life, whatever the piety of their vocal professions and the patriotic flavor of their platitudes.

Henry M. Wriston

Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

George Santayana

What is this life if, so full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.

W. H. Davies

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

Richard Byrd