Life Quotes: Timeless Wisdom and Inspiration (Page 28)

"The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone"

George Foreman, Athlete

"Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life"

John F. Kennedy, President

"If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's"

John F. Kennedy, President

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

John F. Kennedy, President

"For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future"

John F. Kennedy, President

"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future"

John F. Kennedy, President

"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"

John F. Kennedy, President

"I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours"

John F. Kennedy, President

"Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life"

David Hockney, Artist

"Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"Passions are the gales of life"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth"

Doug Coupland, Author

"Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life"

Doug Coupland, Author

"You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself"

Doug Coupland, Author

"Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want"

Doug Coupland, Author

"If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?"

Doug Coupland, Author

"There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent"

Doug Coupland, Author

"Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it"

Doug Coupland, Author

"I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along"

Doug Coupland, Author

"You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young"

Doug Coupland, Author

"You can only fall in love six times in your life. Choose wisely"

Doug Coupland, Author

"The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled"

John Ruskin, Writer

"The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"Whether for life or death, do your own work well"

John Ruskin, Writer

"If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress"

Will Rogers, Actor

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