Life Quotes

The journey in between what you once were and who you are now beoming is where the dance of life really takes place.

Barbara De Angelis

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything.

Vincent Van Gogh

American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralise every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good - will, complacency thoughtlessness, and optimism.

James Harvey Robinson

If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.

Leo Tolstoy

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Adlai E. Stevenson, J

Life is too serious to be taken seriously.

Mike Leonard

The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief.

Michael Crichton, Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

Clifton Fadiman

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

E. M. Forste

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Andre Malraux

It is one of those beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Charles Dudley Warne

Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.

Edward Telle

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein, Observer, Jan. 15, 1950

There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves.

S? ren Kierkegaard

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

Elizabeth II

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

Reinhold Niebuhr, Rockford (IL) Register Star newspape

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - - And in fact we have forgotten.

Euripides

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

Life is like an onion. You peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep.

Unknown

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master - Gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

James Allen

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

William James

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.

Martha Graham

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

Roger Caras

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.

Jean Paul Friedrich Richte

Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.

Annie Besant

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

Life is beautiful. Life is sad.

Vladimir Nabakov, Lolita

Why does this magnificent applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us little happiness The simple answer runs because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.

Albert Einstein

Real life is, to most men, a long second - Best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.

Bertrand Russell

The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.

Charles Schwa

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

A. Bronson Alcott

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Plato, Dialogues, Apology