Life Quotes

"Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life"

John Millington Synge, Poet

"Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one"

Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist

"Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due"

Sydney Smith, Clergyman

"Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things"

Plautus, Playwright

"The Google algorithm was a significant development. I've had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their life on a dating website"

Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor

"Celebrity damages private life"

Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor

"There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation"

Marcus Garvey, Publisher

"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life"

Marcus Garvey, Publisher

"But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

"The chief duty of governments, in so far as they are coercive, is to restrain those who would interfere with the inalienable rights of the individual, among which are the right to life, the right to liberty, the right to the pursuit of happiness, and the right to worship God according to the dictates of his conscience"

Dwight Morrow, Businessman

"Sometimes we get so caught up in our daily lives that we forget to take the time out to enjoy the beauty in life"

Keanu Reeves, Actor

"Every struggle in your life has shaped you into the person you are today. Be thankful for the hard times, they can only make you stronger"

Keanu Reeves, Actor

"Life is good when you have a good sandwich"

Keanu Reeves, Actor

"Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life"

Ralph Ransom, Artist

"It would be very easy for us to do a collection that everybody would like and not criticize. But criticism is a part of life. You have to take it"

Donatella Versace, Designer

"I mean I don't really think about it. You know, do you know what I often say to myself? I think you're very lucky in life if you know what you want to do"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life"

Charles Bukowski, Poet

"As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was. We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life"

Mary J. Blige, Musician

"I'm very comfortable discussing my personal life, because it's so boring"

Daniel Radcliffe, Actor

"I was in the bath at the time, and my dad came running in and said, 'Guess who they want to play Harry Potter!?' and I started to cry. It was probably the best moment of my life"

Daniel Radcliffe, Actor

"The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life"

Philip Zimbardo, Psychologist

"I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life"

Willie Mays, Athlete

"I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy"

Keanu Reeves, Actor

"Southern states in the confederacy were not ready to give up their fight to secede or give up their way of life, which was made possible in large part through the blood, sweat and tears of African slaves"

Corrine Brown, Politician

"We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost"

Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician

"It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped"

Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician

"A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office"

Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician

"The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause"

Gustav Mahler, Composer

"Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life"

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Novelist

"I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life"

Gustav Mahler, Composer

"One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it"

Elias Canetti, Author

"The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

"We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"There's no shame in enjoying a quiet life. And that's been the realization of the past few years for me"

Daniel Radcliffe, Actor

"In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere"

William Dean Howells, Author

"Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don't have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective"

Keanu Reeves, Actor

"The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause"

Guru Nanak, Philosopher

"The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now"

Robert Anton Wilson, Writer

"Yes, I had to learn how to live life outside, but I had so many people help me"

Willie Mays, Athlete

"The nations were awakened from the sleep of death, as the words of eternal life flowed from the Apostles' lips, - the temples of superstition were shut or destroyed, and churches were planted in every part of the civilized world"

John Strachan, Clergyman

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