Life Quotes

"Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious"

Will Rogers, Actor

"An evil life is a kind of death"

Ovid, Poet

"Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books"

John Ruskin, Writer

"Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close"

John Ruskin, Writer

"A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"I think one of the most important things in life is to be curious and always be learning"

Øystein Stray Spetalen, Businessman

"Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be"

W. H. Auden, Poet

"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things"

Rene Descartes, Mathematician

"It was the worst moment of my life. The producer came up and talked me back into going on stage"

Paul Lynde, Comedian

"There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living"

Nelson Mandela, Statesman

"Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

"Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

"We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared"

Mary Kay Ash, Businesswoman

"Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, "Make me feel important." Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life"

Mary Kay Ash, Businesswoman

"When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty"

W. C. Fields, Comedian

"Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink"

W. C. Fields, Comedian

"Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life"

W. C. Fields, Comedian

"Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success"

Og Mandino, Author

"When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another"

Helen Keller, Author

"So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good"

Helen Keller, Author

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing"

Helen Keller, Author

"Life is either a great adventure or nothing"

Helen Keller, Author

"Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others"

Helen Keller, Author

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood"

Helen Keller, Author

"There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins"

Josh Billings, Comedian

"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times"

Martin Luther, Professor

"If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself"

Martin Luther, Professor

"Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can"

Samuel Adams, Revolutionary

"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life"

Richard Bach, Novelist

"There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

"The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

"Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

"Into each life some rain must fall"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

"If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

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