Life Quotes

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.

Henry Stimson

Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

Andrew Brown

Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.

Gloria Swanson

Grow old along with me The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made Our times are in his hand who saith, A whole I planned, Youth shows but half trust God See all, nor be afraid.

Robert Browning

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character the multitude pass us by like a distant army.

Jean Paul Friedrich Richte

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

William James

I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

Frances Willard

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things.

Benjamin Franklin

We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.

Maurice Maeterlinck

I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.

Christa McAuliffe

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

Katherine Hepburn

I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.

Virginia Woolf, Diary, 17 February 1922

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things.

Albert Einstein

Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow.

L. Ron Hubbard, Book: The Creation of Human Ability

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less than a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Fred Allen

Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.

Gustave Flaubert

Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched.

Unknown

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick - Sighted thence proceeds mawkishness.

John Keats

If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered.

Stephen Hawking, Interview with The Guardian (UK) September 27, 2005

A different language is a different vision of life.

Federico Fellini

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

Elizabeth Goudge

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.

William James

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting.

Alan John Percivale Taylo

The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.

Grayson Kirk

It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fea

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

Fran Lebowitz

I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.

Herb Caen

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

Seneca

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - - Loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

Norman Cousins

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this.

Henry David Thoreau

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.

George Woodberry

We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a lifestyle that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.

Margaret Mead