Life Quotes

"An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding"

"If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind"

"In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike"

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author

"I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

"An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life"

Sting, Musician

"The queen and I always got on well, still do; I uphold everything Her Majesty represents, has given up her life for. It's her duty. For her country, she's selfless to the grave"

Sarah Ferguson, Author

"Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult"

Sting, Musician

"It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom"

David Hume, Philosopher

"Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life"

Sting, Musician

"I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should"

Sting, Musician

"I'm always uneasy with messages. I think if there is a message, it's about taking control of your life. Not becoming a victim. Be true to yourself. In essence it's about love in the drug culture"

Neil Tennant, Musician

"Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball"

Mickey Mantle, Athlete

"I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me"

Sting, Musician

"One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation"

Walter Scott, Novelist

"One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name"

Walter Scott, Novelist

"What you feel spiritually. I think a lot of that has to do with it. If you have no spiritual life, chances are everything is going to aggravate you, you're going to fly off the handle at everything and that's what I did in the past. I've kind of got that under control now"

Mike Ditka, Coach

"Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life"

Lyn Nofziger

"The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me"

Walter Scott, Novelist

"Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life"

Walter Scott, Novelist

"You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"Life is too large to hang out a sign: "For Men Only.""

Barbara Jordan, Politician

"This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever"

Anatole France, Novelist

"Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

"Children make your life important"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

"It's your body and you're going to have a much better life, you are going to have a quality life, better lifestyle, you're going to be healthier, you're going to be happier, you're going to enjoy the people around you and they're going to enjoy you more"

Mike Ditka, Coach

"I don't know how to put it, but yet you know we have so many people who the way they look at life, the way they work depends on what happens, us winning or losing. It's kind of crazy. So, I kind of got caught up in that, I'm gonna try to stay away from that"

Mike Ditka, Coach

"Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life"

Epicurus, Philosopher

"It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life"

Epicurus, Philosopher

"A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs"

Epicurus, Philosopher

"I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

"Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

"I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure"

John D. Rockefeller, Businessman

"Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

"We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal"

Anatole France, Novelist

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