Life Quotes

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

If things are too easy, life is a whole lot less interesting.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

I'm not someone who dwells upon past events, taking the view that life is too short.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

I've always been spontaneous and outgoing... I've tried lots of things so I've got some good life experiences, which is great 'cause it means I've got lots of material to work with as an actor.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.

I spent my whole life in the private sector, 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people, it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things, the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow, we don't put Americans to work.

My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

What we play is life.

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.

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.