Life
518 quotes: 30 by Keith Craft, 488 from other voices.
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- The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.
- The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
- The human being cannot live in a condition of emptiness for very long: if he is not growing toward something, he does not merely stagnate; the pent-up potentialities turn into morbidity and despair, and eventually into destructive activities.
- The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and to possess the aptitude and perseverance to attain it.
- The less of routine, the more of life.
- The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
- The life of this world is made up of three days: yesterday has gone with all that was done; tomorrow, you may never reach; but today is for you so do what you should do today.Hasan al-BasriCommonly attributed
- The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.
- The making of money, the accumulation of material power, is not all there is to living. Life is something more than these, and the man who misses this truth misses the greatest joy and satisfaction that can come into his life-service for others.
- The man who does not learn to live while he is getting a living is a poorer man after his wealth is won than he was before.
- The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
- The meaning of life is if something that you did made something better.Temple GrandinSourced
- The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided man.Martin Luther King Jr.Sourced
- The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.
- The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
- The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
- The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
- The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
- The only constant in life is change
- The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.
- The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
- The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live. And often this living nobly means that you cannot live long.SenecaCommonly attributed
- The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
- The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.
- The present moment is a powerful deity.
- The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
- The purpose of life...is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
- The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
- The quality of your life is the quality of your communication.
- The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your thoughts.
- The quality of your life ultimately depends on quality of your decisions.
- The quality which you put into your work will determine the quality of your life.
- The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
- The secret to living is giving.
- The spirit of courage will transform the whole temper of your life.
- The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living which are to be desired when dying.
- The sun is new every day.
- The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.
- The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.