Life Quotes

"In everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We're in love with each other beyond belief"

"I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment"

"Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me"

Walt Whitman, Poet

"It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living"

Terry Pratchett, Author

"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life"

Terry Pratchett, Author

"Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them"

Mother Teresa, Leader

"One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life"

Napoleon Hill, Writer

"It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project"

Napoleon Hill, Writer

"I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed"

Michael Caine, Actor

"Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write"

Michael Caine, Actor

"We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"Love is energy of life"

Robert Browning, Poet

"I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on"

Robert Browning, Poet

"How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!"

Robert Browning, Poet

"Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra"

Fran Lebowitz, Journalist

"Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep"

Fran Lebowitz, Journalist

"In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra"

Fran Lebowitz, Journalist

"Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot"

Charlie Chaplin, Actor

"Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone"

Charlie Chaplin, Actor

"The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load"

Queen Elizabeth II, Royalty

"I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect"

Queen Elizabeth II, Royalty

"I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust"

Queen Elizabeth II, Royalty

"Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do"

Napoleon Hill, Writer

"All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth"

Napoleon Hill, Writer

"Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life"

Joseph Conrad, Novelist

"One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter"

Joseph Addison, Writer

"Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another"

Joseph Addison, Writer

"If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius"

Joseph Addison, Writer

"How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue"

Natalie Clifford Barney, Author

"It has been my aim throughout present operations to afford the greatest amount of protection to life and property interests, and troops have been stationed accordingly"

George Crook, Soldier

"Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life"

Joseph Conrad, Novelist

"If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

"With renunciation life begins"

Natalie Clifford Barney, Author

"Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

"I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

"Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life"

Joseph Conrad, Novelist

"There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea"

Joseph Conrad, Novelist

"There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it"

Joseph Conrad, Novelist

"A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love"

Joseph Conrad, Novelist

"Novels are longer than life"

Natalie Clifford Barney, Author

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