Life Quotes

"Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that"

Twyla Tharp, Dancer

"Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement"

Ernest Dimnet, Priest

"I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

"I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift"

Twyla Tharp, Dancer

"But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"School is a foretaste of life"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself"

Georges Clemenceau, Leader

"'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories"

William James, Philosopher

"There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise"

William James, Philosopher

"The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

"I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds"

Joan Rivers, Comedian

"For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

"Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings"

William James, Philosopher

"This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it"

William James, Philosopher

"These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact"

William James, Philosopher

"The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it"

William James, Philosopher

"The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it"

William James, Philosopher

"The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one"

William James, Philosopher

"Man can alter his life by altering his thinking"

William James, Philosopher

"Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another"

William James, Philosopher

"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact"

William James, Philosopher

"A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain"

William James, Philosopher

"I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future"

Mike Tyson, Athlete

"I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

"Football is like life and I know life"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

"St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel"

Malcolm Muggeridge, Journalist

"It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh"

Malcolm Muggeridge, Journalist

"Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message"

Malcolm Muggeridge, Journalist

"Life is but a moment, death also is but another"

Robert H. Schuller, Clergyman

"He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise"

William Blake, Poet

"Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency"

Quentin Crisp, Writer

"This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life"

Malcolm Muggeridge, Journalist

"Life well spent is long"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

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