Life Quotes

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.

I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Life is short. Ricky and I realize how lucky we were. We want to be together all the time.

Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

The roles... the deep roles that I've gotten to play have turned my course. They've changed my life experience.

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

If a child, a spouse, a life partner, or a parent depends on you and your income, you need life insurance.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.