On Life Quotes

One of the worst things about life is not how nasty the nasty people are. You know that already. It is how nasty the nice people can be.

You have to take calculated risks in life.

One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love.

Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.

When I talk of reality, I am always thinking of essentials. Profundity is not located in some remote, inaccessible region. It is rooted in everyday life.

People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots.

Keep going is keep growing only if one keeps adding values in others' lives through the path of his life's journey

If you put your mind to something, if you give 100 percent, if you sacrifice, and if you dedicate yourself, anything is truly possible.

Find out who you really are, then accept who you are. Fight for your life every day to be who you are.

I studied, I met with medical doctors, scientists, and I’m here to tell you that the way to a more productive, more inspired, more joyful life is: getting enough sleep.

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

I was high on life but eventually I built up a tolerance.

Your attitude is more important than stylish clothes. This comes from believing in yourself. This attitude can define your life.

I stepped out of my grave and into my life again.

Free enterprise is essentially a formula not just for wealth creation, but for life satisfaction.

There is no possibility of failure because you only control your actions and they only influence the probable evolution of your life over stochastic future paths. There is no failure, only feedback.

Excellence is the eternal quest. We achieve it by living up to our highest intellectual standards and our finest moral intuitions. In seeking excellence, take life seriously-but never yourself!

History is full of surprises.

Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.

If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.

Life is too important to be taken as a joke, but too ridiculous to be taken seriously.

I think it's better that life is kind of like a mystery, I think that's what drives us.

I'm very headstrong and I know what I want from life. I listen to peoples' opinions, but a lot of the time I'll trust my own instincts. I'm also really clumsy, so I'm always getting hurt.

Nothing made sense to me anymore. I knew I was young, I knew I was small. But I was worried that I might already be ruined.

Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.

Every life must be given the chance to realize its full potential - that every life matters.

To be fully human is perhaps why I'm Christian, because I see in the life of Jesus a way of being fully human.

Good must triumph over evil. It usually does in life and in any case it's bad for young people to believe it doesn't.

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

Don’t let your life speed out of control. Live intentionally. Do something today that will last beyond your lifetime.

in modern society, fear of unemployment remains the darkest of the shadows thrown by the past. In an industrial order, a man out of work is almost a man out of life.

Life doesn't stop with football.

People say, 'Are you afraid? Are you scared for your life?' and I tell them: If I choose today to tone it down, if I choose today to shut up, tomorrow me, you, and all of us will be forced to.

I wouldn't take a directing job if I didn't think it was enriching life.

I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.

The price of victory is high, but so are the rewards.

Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.

To me, success is one's ability to keep the faith, develop his God-given talents, and be able to honestly say at the close of life, "the world is a better place because I have lived."

Do you know anyone who has a lease on life? It isn’t a question of if; it’s a question of when.

The biggest surprise in a man's life is old age.

This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.

I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is.

I'm sort of focused on my long-term goal of carving out a career that's for life, rather than being a flash in the pan.

The masters of life know the way, for they listen to the voice within them, the voice of wisdom and simplicity, the voice that reasons beyond cleverness and knows beyond knowledge.

Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet.

The gospel of Jesus Christ prescribes the wisest rules for just conduct in every situation in life. Happy they who are enabled to obey them in all situations!

Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.

People get stuck a lot because they're afraid to act; in the worst case,...we get so attached to some end result that we can't function. We need help just to move on, only life doesn't wait.

The middle class is collapsing and we are moving toward an oligarchic form of society, where the billionaires will control the economy and the political life of the country.