The Life Quotes

Take responsibility for making your own life beautiful.

Look. You all do things that are beautiful and magical and... and important. But me... there's gotta be more to my life than just pots and kettles. All I'm asking you is that you give me a chance.

Most of us dont live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.

I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.

The pressure of the hands causes the springs of life to flow.

I think quite often a fate worse than death is life, for lots of people.

Life is like the rungs on a ladder. The reason they are placed so close together is that we can learn to take baby steps and reach our destinations safely.

Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid.

Everyone is dealing with something. This is life; this is not just a piece of cake.

You have to remember we're just performers, that we seldom have any kind of grasp on real life.

The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it's not fun, you're wasting your life.

In McKinsey's world, all of life is one of two things: strategy or organization.

To emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.

A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.

There're many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they're victims.

Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice.

People tend the take everything too seriously. Especially themselves. Yep. And that's probably what makes 'em scared and hurt so much of the time. Life is too serious to take that seriously.

People are never perfect, but love can be.

I’ve always been a sponge, just absorbing whatever I see, whether it’s in daily life or in art.

I've always known, all my life, that I was going to be something special. I never knew what it was, but I always had that feeling. I think my mother installed it when I was a little guy.

There are a lot of pitchers in baseball who should celebrate his life and what he did for the game of baseball.

We shouldn't be willy-nilly creating potential human life just to satisfy the urges of the scientific community.

Marriage was probably the worst mistake I ever made in my life.

We're thrilled to join Google. With their support, Nest will be even better placed to build simple, thoughtful devices that make life easier at home, and that have a positive impact on the world.

He is already past the high point in his life and coming down on the other side. By next week he'll be nostalgia. He's 12 years old, and it's over for him.

It's not what we do once in a while that counts, but our habitual actions. What ultimately determines who we become and where we go in life are our decisions. These decisions shape our destiny.

Our goal is not to ignore the problems of life, but to put ourselves in better mental and emotional states where we can not only come up with solutions, but act upon them.

If you learn to condition yourself you can change anything you want in your life.

Lead a life of your own design, on your own terms -not one that others, or the environment have scripted for you.

You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want using whatever life gives you along the way.

A genuine quality of life comes from consistent, quality questions.

Success happens with a consistent increase in quality in your life

If I died right now, my life would be complete.

How can a man commit acts of martial valour if he values his life?

Joy is the state of the human soul who is not identified with the personality. Happiness is a state of the soul who is identified with the personality and enjoys the life in the personality.

I've waited all my life to say this... I weigh less than Elizabeth Taylor!

I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do

When I select a topic, it's usually a commitment of two to three years of my life

I don't know what life is like, I don't know how regular people live. I just can never understand it. My first job was the NBA.

When you're a doctor and you spend most of your life in a hospital, you honestly don't get to watch as much television as you think you might, and the power of television is enormous.

I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.

At some point in my life I would like to win a Grammy. I think that would be a good thing to do.

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

When you were born the world was smiling, and you cry, because living a life so that you are dying smiled, cried and the world.

Trying to say something is all you got in life.

When it all comes down to it, life isn't about how much we get - it's about how much we share.

I'm not sure exactly how gossiping about my life with my audience really helps them

From offstage until the moment I walk onstage, I constantly tweak my talk show and 'Top Model', but at the same time, I often leave my private life by the wayside.

I tried all my life to be a normal person. Stars are in the sky. I like cooking and gardening.

Maybe those nihilist philosophers are right; maybe this is all we can expect of the universe, a relentless crushing of life and spirit, because the equilibrium state of the cosmos is death.