This Life Quotes

Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life.

Almost all stress, tension, anxiety, and frustration, both in life and in work, comes from doing one thing while you believe and value something completely different.

Success is the ability to live your life, the way you want to live it, doing what you enjoy most, surrounded by people you admire and respect.

Decide today to design and build the ideal relationship in your life. It's up to you.

You are the most powerful force in your life.

I enjoy inventing things out of fun. After all, life is a game, not a career.

You should never do two things. You should hammer one nail all your life, and I didn't do that; I hammered on a lot of nails like a xylophone.

Never lie to your mother. That's like the biggest lesson that I learned, learned throughout my life, you know?

The song Cant Look Back Now by the Weepies reminds me of the entire Life Unexpected experience.

I have never tried [cocaine] in my entire life. I've never even seen it. ... I am also way too high-strung. I can't even take a Sudafed. Can you imagine? My God. I think my heart would explode.

We all struggle. I'm not saying any successful woman's life is without struggle. But it doesn't mean it has to be miserable.

There's no time in life to do all the roles I'd like to play.

The schools, the courts, the media - all seem determined to erase Christian influence from public life and confine religion to the four walls of the church or home.

The three most important pitches I threw in my life were all fastballs.

There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.

You do not have to do anything to defend yourself in life; just be beautiful, and life will defend you.

I have found in life that everything, no matter how bad, comes to an end.

I've never, ever, in my entire life, been upset at a casting choice.

I wanted to tell my story in a way I haven't done before, things I've been going through in my life.

When people screamed novelty the first time around talking about an ugly video and stuff I was really insulted because, hold on a minute, everyone you see in the video are real life.

You get more negative reactions than positive reactions as you go through life, and the big lesson is nobody counts you out but yourself...I never have; I never will.

Timing has always been a key element in my life. I have been blessed to have been in the right place at the right time.

I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.

Look at your life without the thought "Something terrible is going to happen."

No matter the severity of suffering we experience in this life, it will always be less that what we have deserved for our sins

All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness.

When God becomes a Man and lives as a creature among His own creatures in Palestine, then indeed His life is one of supreme self-sacrifice and leads to Calvary.

Well!' said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands. 'This is just what I needed. If these chaps don't teach me to take a serious view of life, I don't know what will.

I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked.

If I knocked and waited at every door, who knows what I might miss?

It seems a universal rule in this world that people will always look for victims and scapegoats, does it not? Especially at times of difficulty and tension.

If you do it properly, life is art, really.

The thing I most connect with is the idea of not giving up. And thats a thing I have in my own life. You have to trust your instincts and keep trying.

It's that kind of choice of a woman - to go with the nice guy or the nasty guy. And I think that all women get to make that choice and they always go for the suave, nasty guy. It's a fact of life.

I've got a great support group, real and true friends and I'm moving forward with my life. I was sad and wanted to make things work but I'm completely fine now. I'm moving on.

Your life is a Fellini film, lacking only Anita Ekberg with a cat on her head.

He leans over and kisses me. And suddenly, my life splits in two: before and after.

And the sooner you do the right thing, the better. You get it over with, and you don’t have to worry about it anymore. But who does that in real life?

Thinking about death... clarifies your life!

Life is something that has to be lived and not talked about.

Life is crazy and meaningful at once.

The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs. (on being 36 yrs old)

My dream life is just to go back to my job full-time. And be with my family. You know, regular dreams, common dreams that everyone has.

It is hard to know if what you are going to do in life is up to you, or a sum of the contribution of others, plus the circumstances you are born into.

I have no fear of the Hereafter. An orthodox hell could hardly be more torture than my life has been.

The key to life was rearranging the furniture.

Every minute you spend in your life is either spent bringing you closer to your goals or moving you away from your goals.

Traditional investment vehicles such as IRAs, CDs, stocks and bonds do have their place, but for the rich, they are used more as temporary storage facilities rather than life-long homes.

Now Everybody has some secret goals in life...Sometimes you can get what you want and what you need at the sames time.

No one's really taking it seriously enough, being more kind of careful and cautious in planning your life out and trying to reach a goal. It takes a great deal of effort - and this cannot be taught.