1,004 private quotes tagged life

“Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.” — Mark Twain

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“All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“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.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.” — Plato

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“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.” — Plato

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“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” — Helen Keller

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“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.” — Anatole France

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“If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.” — Bruce Lee

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“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” — Mark Twain

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“Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.” — Barbara Kingsolver

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“Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.” — Aphra Behn

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“Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.” — Paul Wellstone

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“Life is lived on the edge.” — Will Smith

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“You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.” — Tony Robbins

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“The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.” — Michael Jackson

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“Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the game, and in some ways that's about life too.” — Michael Jordan

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“My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.” — Oprah Winfrey

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“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.” — Michael Jordan

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“I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” — Michael Jordan

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“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” — Oprah Winfrey

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“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” — Oprah Winfrey

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“I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.” — Oprah Winfrey

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“Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.” — Will Smith

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“The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.” — Groucho Marx

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