Life Quotes

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence - - And then success is sure.

Mark Twain

Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.

James Madison, Federalist 10

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life.

Reverend Edward A. Malloy

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

Stella Adle

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.

Mary Hemingway

The only real failure in life is the failure to try.

Unknown

Life imitates art more than art imitates life.

Oscar Wilde

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

Gilbert Highet

Ah, Hope what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to - Day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.

La Rochefoucauld

To save a Life in defeat, is to receive Victory and Honor.

The Best of the Best (motion picture)

Life is very important to Americans.

Bob Dole

Middle age is the time of life that a man first notices in his wife.

Richard Willard Armou

Sometimes I would rather that people take away years from my life Than take away a moment.

Pearl Bailey

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Buddha

Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous life... the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Ludwig van Beethoven

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

And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait... And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.

Walt Whitman

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Oscar Wilde

We may not know the whole story in our lifetime. On assassination of President John F Kennedy.

Earl Warren

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People find life entirely too time - Consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".

You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.

T. S. Elliot

Gossip is always a personal confession of malice or imbecility; it is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are neighborhoods where it rages like a pest; churches are split in pieces by it, and neighbor made enemies for life. Let the young avoid or cure it while they may.

Jack Holland

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

H. G. Wells

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

Woody Allen

Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish.

Homer, The Iliad

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons.

George T. Hewitt

The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.

C. H. Cooley

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

George Bernard Shaw

There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.

Jim Davis

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Socrates

One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations? Book Three

If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is thank you, that would suffice.

Meister Eckhart

The world of the commodity is a world updside - Down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.

Raoul Vaneigem

Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

Henry David Thoreau

Beanie Well, let me be the first to say congratulations to you man you have one vagina for the rest of your life. Real smart man.

Old School