Life Quotes

During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.
Soren Kierkegaard

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.
Jerry Seinfeld

Nothing so dates an era as its conception of the future.
Brian Eno

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
William Penn

Stories are like genes. They keep part of us alive after the end of our story.
A.S. Byatt

Music expresses that which cannot be said and which cannot remain silent.
Victor Hugo

Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth.
Pope John Paul II

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
Nelson Mandela

Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgot.
Neil Gaiman

Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.
Albert Einstein

How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but by how well we are understood.
Andrew S. Grove

A man would do well to carry a pencil in his pocket, and write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable, and should be secured, because they seldom return.
Francis Bacon

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.
Washington Irving

The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.
H. T. Leslie

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt

You don't have to know everything, you just have to know where to find the answer to everything.
Unknown

Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on the stuff he's made of.
Josh Billings

When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something.
Jared Sparks

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
George Eliot

Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it immediately.
Stephen R. Covey

Many a man has found the acquisition of wealth only a change, not an end, of miseries.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It's supposed to be fun.
Barbara Bush

There is a lesson that lies in the foundation of my business--there is no such thing as an insignificant human being. To treat people that way is a kind of sin, and there's no reason for it, none.
Debbi Fields

Have you learned lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who rejected you, and braced themselves against you, or disputed the passage with you?
Walt Whitman

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
W. Clement Stone

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though it were his own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The longer I live, the more firmly convinced I become that the essential factor that lifts one man above his fellows in terms of achievement and success is his greater capacity for self-discipline.
Ray Kroc

Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
Matthew Arnold

There are low spots in our lives, but there are also high spots, and most of them have come through encouragement from someone else.
George M. Adams

Five minutes, just before going to sleep, given to a bit of directed imagination regarding achievement possibilities of the morrow, will steadily and increasingly bear fruit, particularly if all ideas of difficulty, worry or fear are resolutely ruled out and replaced by those of accomplishment and smiling courage.
Frederick Pierce

Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps 'til the legend, 'over steep ways to the stars,' fulfills self.
W. C. Doane

To be faithful to your instincts and the impulses that carry you in the direction of the excellence you most desire and value . . . surely that is to lead the noble life.
George E. Woodberry

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
Jimmy Carter

There seems to me no greater misfortune than having so much that all of it becomes meaningless; than wanting what you haven't, rather than what you have. Seven of the wisest words I know are, 'Only those are rich who desire little.'
Channing Pollock

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.
Hugh Black

Loyalty is the holiest good in the human heart.
Seneca

Some people make things happen; Some people watch things happen; and some people wonder what happened.
Unknown

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Margaret Thatcher

It's better to keep your mouth shut and make people think you are a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt.
Unknown

The future? The thing that got us here will not get us there.
Peter F. Drucker

Everyone is like a tack and can only go as far as the head permits.
Olive Ann Beech

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
James Baldwin

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass.' 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply, 'We're raising boys.'
Harmon Killebrew

When you're in your nineties and looking back, it's not going to be how many awards you've won. It's really what did you stand for. Did you make a positive difference for people?
Elizabeth Dole

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Napoleon Hill

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.
Tony Blair

A splendid storehouse of integrity and freedom has been bequeathed to us by our forefathers. In this day of confusion, of peril to liberty, our high duty is to see that this storehouse is not robbed of it's contents.
Herbert Hoover

The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts, and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

You give me the right people, and I don't much care what organization you give me. Good things will happen. Give the wrong people and it doesn't matter what you do with the organization. Bad things will happen.
Colin Powell

Talking and eloquence are not the same; to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Ben Jonson

Perhaps wisdon is to be found in people who have suffered greatly but have surmounted it.
Louis Jolyon West

This flag, which we honor and under which we serve, is the emblem of our unity, our power, our thought and purpose as a nation. It has no other character than that which we give it from generation to generation. The choices are ours.
Woodrow Wilson

What makes a company great is not primarily its top leaders, but the quality of its innumerable everyday ones.
John Holmes

Like books and black lives, albums still matter.
Prince

The difference between a republic and a people's republic is a lot like the difference between a jacket and a straitjacket.
Ronald Reagan

Keep your eyes open to you mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
Robert Louis Stevenson

We all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon.
David Carr

If you can't be funny, be interesting.
Harold Ross

At some point in life, the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.
Toni Morrison

Keeping a journal is like taking good care of one's heart.
Ted Kooser

The aging process has you firmly in it's grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
Doug Larson

The whole of anything is never told.
Henry James

Hatred is the anger of the weak.
Alphonse Daudet

Every child starts out as a scientist, as an explorer, as someone who is infinitely curious.
Richard Powers

Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson

A sheltered life can be a daring life as well.
Eudora Welty

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
Andrè Gide

Life is easier to take than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris

I would rather fail at something I love than succeed at something I hate.
George Burns

We explore because we are human and we want to know.
Stephen Hawking

Everything that irritates us about others can lead to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl Jung

Bravery is to defend yourself from another, and humanity is to defend the other from yourself.
Marko Miljanov Popovic

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci

What an elder sees sitting, the young can't see standing.
Gustave Flaubert

No one has ever become poor by giving.
Anne Frank

A 2-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it.
Jerry Seinfeld

In Buenos Aires, mothers say to me, 'My son is 34 and he's not getting married; I don't know what to do.' So I tell them, 'Don't iron his shirts anymore.'
Pope Francis

Most of American life is driving somewhere and then driving back wondering why the hell you went.
John Updike

They who are of the opinion that money will do everything may very well be suspected to do everything for money.
George Savile

If you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do.
Clive James

Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamp post: for support, not illumination.
Vin Scully

People who say others are difficult are usually difficult themselves.
Van Morrison

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
J.K. Rowling

He who does not enjoy his own company is usually right.
Coco Chanel

Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don't expect it from cheap people.
Warren Buffett

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Stephen King

For a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
Winston Churchill

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of life, but that it bothers him less and less.
Vaclav Havel

What is lawful is not always identical to what is right.
Ian McEwan

People never gossip about the secret virtues of others.
Bertrand Russell

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like.
Mark Twain

Do what you feel in your heart to be right--for you'll be criticized anyway.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a shortcut to everything.
Samuel Johnson

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Architecture is frozen music.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe