Life Quotes

"All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together"

Morihei Ueshiba, Athlete

"All life is a manifestation of the spirit, the manifestation of love"

Morihei Ueshiba, Athlete

"You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength"

Charlotte Bronte, Novelist

"The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions"

William O. Douglas, Judge

"Life is a school of probability"

Walter Bagehot, Author

"We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them"

Abdul Kalam, Statesman

"Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person"

Abdul Kalam, Statesman

"What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it's not that way"

Skeet Ulrich, Actor

"They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life"

Black Elk, Leader

"A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die"

Bernard Berenson, Historian

"My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport"

Joan Chen, Actress

"When the TV version of Annie came on, I was drawn to it. It was the struggle of this poor kid in this environment and how her life changed. It immediately resonated"

Jay-Z, Musician

"The attacks in Jordan, just like those before it in Indonesia, Egypt, Spain and the United States, demonstrate that terrorism does not discriminate by race, ethnicity or region. Instead, terrorists indiscriminately target those seeking to live a peaceful, loving and free life"

Allyson Schwartz, Politician

"If you stop struggling, then you stop life"

Huey Newton, Activist

"The good news is that even minimal activity can significantly extend life"

Howard Coble, Politician

"Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting"

Jack Bowman, Actor

"My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become"

Imelda Marcos, Celebrity

"People in this room must have back problems, I'm sure some of us do, and it is really, really one of the worst pains and debilitating parts of your body that you can actually have because you really can't do anything in your life when you have it"

Greg Norman, Athlete

"We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That's the repository of that lovely identity that you keep chasing all your life"

George Wald, Scientist

"I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective"

George Wald, Scientist

"The fact that so many of your people are today residents and citizens of the United States, lending their influence to our civic and economic life, which has meant so much to our development"

Frank B. Kellogg, Politician

"An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer"

Sarah Ban Breathnach, Author

"You have to go understand that life and baseball is littered with all kinds of obstacles and problems along the way. You have to learn how to overcome them to be successful in life"

Dave Winfield, Athlete

"I felt like an extraordinary hero. I was only five or six and I had the whole of life in my hands. Even if I had been driving the carriage of the sun I could not have felt any better"

Dario Fo, Playwright

"Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life"

Martha Beck, Author

"I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way"

Martha Beck, Author

"At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I've had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting these things in our culture"

Martha Beck, Author

"Life is a struggle, but not a warfare"

John Burroughs, Author

"Timing in life is everything"

Leonard Maltin, Critic

"Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded"

Fulton J. Sheen, Clergyman

"Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity"

Imelda Marcos, Celebrity

"Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life"

Herman Hesse, Author

"An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life"

Jacques Prevert, Poet

"Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us"

Harry Emerson Fosdick, Clergyman

"Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden"

Ieyasu Tokugawa, Statesman

"You see, every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this planet; and that is about three billion years"

George Wald, Scientist

"Our business is with life, not death"

George Wald, Scientist

"I wouldn't call it bitter. I think it's just sweet. I've always believed my life seems like it's gotten better and better as each decade has gone by. So I don't see any I don't see any bitterness about it"

Greg Norman, Athlete

"I mean, I can actually say goodbye to the game of golf, never hit another golf shot the rest of my life and I'd be happy because I can get back in life without any rotation"

Greg Norman, Athlete

"The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important"

Ed Bradley, Journalist

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