Life Quotes: Timeless Wisdom and Inspiration

"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

"Business is the salt of life"

Voltaire, Writer

"As soon as there is life there is danger"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

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

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"There is more to life than increasing its speed"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"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

"Life loves the liver of it"

Maya Angelou, Poet

"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

"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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

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

Osama bin Laden, Criminal

"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

"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

"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

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

Euripides, Poet

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

Woody Allen, Director

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

George Byron, Poet

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

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

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

Anne Baxter, Actress

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

Raymond Holliwell, Author

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

Mickey Mantle, Athlete

"A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life"

Robertson Davies, Novelist

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

William Ellery Channing, Writer

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

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

"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

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

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

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

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes"

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

"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

"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

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

Rene Magritte, Artist

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

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

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

Democritus, Philosopher

"A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again"

Jean Renoir, Director

"Life is an illusion, and we must create our own reality"

Humayun Ahmed, Author

"Life is too short, and I'm Italian. I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0"

Sophia Bush, Actress

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

Texas Guinan, Businessman

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