Life Quotes

The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves.

Marie Curie

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there? s purpose and worth to each and every life.

Ronald Reagan

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, "Julius Caesar", Act 4 scene 3

Security is an illusion. Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.

Kelle

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

Johann Von Schille

Life is beautiful. Life is sad.

Vladimir Nabakov, Lolita

What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.

Karl Kraus

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope.

Reinhold Niebuhr, Rockford (IL) Register Star newspape

Blindness and error can change a life as surely as judgment and reason can.

M. Morris

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.

Charles Scribner, Jr.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

Life was made to be enjoyed as well as endured.

Unknown

Let us forever forget that every station in life is necessarily that each deserves our respect; that not the station itself; but the worthy fulfillment of its duties does honor the man.

Mary Lyon

Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.

Tyron Edwards

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Chinese Prove

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

There isn? t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren? t really living without it.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, August 27, 2003

Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight - Lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.

Smiley Blanton

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

Wayne W Dye

We learn not in the school, but in life.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butle

If you seek yourself,... you rob the lens of its transparency.... You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.

Dag Hammarskjld

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

Pearl S. Buck

What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?

George Eliot

The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance, Act 3

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.

Thomas Jefferson

We are each responsible for our own life - No other person is or even can be.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

There are three things that are important in human life. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind.

Henry James

What is life An illusion, a shadow, a story, And the greatest good is little enough for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals.

Benjamin Franklin

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

Sir Philip Sidney

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.

Buddha