1,004 private quotes tagged life

“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.” — George Washington

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“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.” — Plato

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“The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.” — Robert Frost

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“Life in abundance comes only through great love.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.” — Maya Angelou

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“A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.” — Aristotle

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

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“No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!” — Ronald Reagan

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“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.” — Hubert H. Humphrey

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“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Our life is what our thoughts make it.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.” — Dave Barry

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“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.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.” — Ronald Reagan

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“Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.” — Oscar Wilde

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“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.” — Thomas A. Edison

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“In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.” — Winston Churchill

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“A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.” — John F. Kennedy

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