Life Quotes

It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.

Mondays are the potholes in the road of life.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure and I thought we must find another writer.

There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.

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.

Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat were major influences; just the same, you need to understand that many of the writers we have now couldn't load a revolver.

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.