Life Quotes

"Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment"

"From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life"

"The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life"

John F. Kennedy, President

"Life is wasted on the living"

Douglas Adams, Writer

"Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart"

Ross Perot, Businessman

"In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might"

Alfred A. Montapert, Philosopher

"A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save"

Will Rogers, Actor

"Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority"

Vince Lombardi, Coach

"I've never had a drink of alcohol or any drug in my life"

Penn Jillette, Entertainer

"To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead"

Og Mandino, Author

"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again"

Og Mandino, Author

"Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living"

Helen Keller, Author

"He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections"

Samuel Adams, Revolutionary

"There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

"I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there"

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

"May you live all the days of your life"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

"To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there"

Richard Bach, Novelist

"Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"Where there's life, there's hope"

Terence, Playwright

"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

"They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life"

Jane Austen, Writer

"The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes"

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

"Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper"

George Orwell, Author

"Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art"

Paul Theroux, Novelist

"Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it"

Arthur C. Clarke, Writer

"Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it"

Andrew Jackson, President

"A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker"

Ann Bancroft, Explorer

"I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally"

Thomas Mann, Writer

"Hold loosely to the things of this life, so that if God requires them of you, it will be easy to let them go"

Corrie Ten Boom, Celebrity

"It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem"

Wangari Maathai, Activist

"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves"

Leon Trotsky, Revolutionary

"Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness"

Leon Trotsky, Revolutionary

"Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another"

Thomas Merton, Author

"A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire"

Thomas Merton, Author

"If the whole world went vegan, there would be less war. How you eat determines your mood and your outlook on life"

Alexandra Paul, Actress

"The human overpopulation issue is the topic I see as the most vital to solve if our children and grandchildren are to have a good quality of life"

Alexandra Paul, Actress

"Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for"

Earl Warren, Judge

"Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life"

Seneca, Philosopher

"The way to know life is to love many things"

Vincent Van Gogh, Artist

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