On Life Quotes

If we each get on a treadmill right now, one of two things is going to happen... either you're going to get off first or I am going to die. Period.

Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard

Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.

The larger office, the corner space, the extra window are the teddy bears and tricycles of adult office life

Jesus was clear that He had come, not to make life easy, but to make men great.

First thought is best in Art, second in other matters.

The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.

Loveliest of lovely things are they, On earth, that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life

Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.

The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.

There are many who are lip servants but not life servants.

I believe half of the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.

Now the way of life that I preach is a habit to be acquired gradually by long and steady repetition. It is the practice of living for the day only, and for the day's work.

I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.

Religion itself is nothing else but Love to God and Man. He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved Disciple: And to be sure a Man can live no where better.

If you’re alive, you can’t be bored in San Francisco. If you’re not alive, San Francisco will bring you to life.

Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.

Like madness, is the glory of this life.

My desolation does begin to make A better life.

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!

All of life is the exercise of risk.

I had never considered marriage, but I had an open mind, and I was to learn after a brief try at it that most open minds should be closed for repairs.

it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end.

May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the strength to walk through life facing each new situation with courage and optimism.

The vistas of possibility are only limited by the shortness of life.

Embrace life and all that God gives you-but never let it contain you. This world is too small to contain you.

Life's most precious gift is uncertainty.

I'm enjoying where I'm at in my life and I feel like I'm learning a lot on a daily basis. I'm learning without having to be behind a desk, so it's a pretty cool place to be.

Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.

A gentleman makes friends by learning together with others, and he looks to friends to help him cultivate benevolence.

People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.

Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches

The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.

The money I've earned has enabled me to keep my life in my own hands. I had a terrific body, and I got paid for using it.

You need not feel guilty about not being able to keep your life perfectly balanced. Juggling everything is too difficult. All you really need to do is catch it before it hits the floor.

My mother had an amazing life, and she's someone to admire.

If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.

There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them.

You have this one life. So just live it and just do it.

I think the hardest thing about my life is that I've met so many people all over the world who I love, but they're not friends with each other.

The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others.

But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we'd lose them.

If football wasn't a part of my life, there were three things that could have happened, and they were all bad. I would have likely been selling drugs, in jail or dead.

I hate downtime. I hate it so much. I like to relax like anybody else, but I hate not doing anything. In my life I'm either going full speed or I'm at a stop.

A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life.