Life Quotes: Timeless Wisdom and Inspiration

"Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage"

Sri Aurobindo, Philosopher

"Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there"

Henry James, Writer

"Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath"

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

"It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice"

Jose Rizal, Writer

"Business is the salt of life"

Voltaire, Writer

"As soon as there is life there is danger"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"My one regret in life is that I am not someone else"

Woody Allen, Director

"There is more to life than increasing its speed"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy"

Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat

"Life loves the liver of it"

Maya Angelou, Poet

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday"

John Wayne, Actor

"We love death. The U.S. loves life. That is the difference between us two"

Osama bin Laden, Criminal

"This life of ours, this is a wonderful life. If you can get through life like this and get away with it, hey that's great. But it's very predictable. There's so many ways you can screw it up"

Paul Castellano, Criminal

"Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"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. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization"

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author

"A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country"

Texas Guinan, Businessman

"Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry"

Democritus, Philosopher

"It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life"

Mickey Mantle, Athlete

"If you don't have solid beliefs you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon"

Alfred A. Montapert, Philosopher

"It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know.""

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream"

Rene Magritte, Artist

"In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are"

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

"The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life"

Euripides, Poet

"Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one star in a trillion has a planet that could support life. If that were the case, then there would be at least 100 million planets that harbored life"

Ben Sweetland, Author

"Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty"

George Byron, Poet

"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts; therefore guard accordingly"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair"

John F. Kennedy, President

"See into life, don't just look at it"

Anne Baxter, Actress

"The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy"

Malcolm Forbes, Publisher

"No matter what we want of life we have to give up something in order to get it"

Raymond Holliwell, Author

"CrossFit is a way of life. You eat well, you train hard, you push yourself. It teaches you so much about yourself"

Ben Smith, Athlete

"Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life"

William Ellery Channing, Writer

"As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you"

Fran Lebowitz, Journalist

"A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life"

Robertson Davies, Novelist

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