Life Quotes

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

When I was younger I probably didn't understand something basic about tact, but I think it kept faint-hearted people at arm's distance and that's not such a bad thing, because life is short and I know the kind of people I want to work with.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

Life is too short to be miserable.

I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.

For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding's a mystery to me now. You can't go back, your life changes every day.

As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

I can't write my life story without Emmitt and Troy. They can't write their life stories without me. We're tied together forever. This is a day to remember for the rest of our lives.