Life Quotes

"Life is half spent before we know what it is"

"Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education"

"Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"Where there is love there is life"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope"

Epictetus, Philosopher

"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started"

Cicero, Philosopher

"While there's life, there's hope"

Cicero, Philosopher

"What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk"

Cicero, Philosopher

"This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again"

Cicero, Philosopher

"Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act"

Cicero, Philosopher

"It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

"The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

"Life in abundance comes only through great love"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

"My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

"If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence"

Rabindranath Tagore, Poet

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