Life
518 quotes: 30 by Keith Craft, 488 from other voices.
Other voices on Life
- Resist manfully, and the first decision will give strength for life; repeated, it will become a habit.
- Resolved, That I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
- Resolved, To live with all my might, while I do live.
- Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand ages hence.
- Retire from your job but never from meaningful projects.
- Retirement can be... a rocking chair or a launching pad.
- Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature…. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- 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.
- Seize time by the forelock.Pittacus of MityleneCommonly attributed
- Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.Oscar WildeCommonly attributed
- Show me that the good life doesn’t consist in its length, but in its use, and that it is possible—no, entirely too common—for a person who has had a long life to have lived too little.
- Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
- So make haste to live, my dear Lucilius and think of each single day as a single life.
- So remember this graduates: when people start saying you're crazy, you just might be on to the most important innovation of your life.Larry EllisonSourced
- Somebody ought to tell us right at the start of our lives that we are dying. Then we might live to the limit every minute of every day. Do it, I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now.
- Sometimes a storm in your life is what will blow you to the place you are longing to be.
- Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
- Strength is Life, Weakness is Death. Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death. Love is Life, Hatred is Death.
- Success in that sphere of life is achieved less by talent than by temper, less by genius than by character.
- Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.
- Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
- That life is long which answers life's great end.
- The answer to the big questions in running is the same as the answer to the big questions in life: Do the best with what you've got.
- The art of living is more wrestling than dancing — teaching a man to stay on his feet, on guard and unruffled, so that whatsoever falls upon him he may be ready for it.
- The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
- The best students in school seek to satisfy their teachers. The best students in life seek to satisfy their curiosity.
- The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.
- The best things in life aren’t things.
- The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.
- The character of the whole day depends upon the way it is begun.James AllenSourced
- The creed of the true saint is to make the best of life, and make the most of it.
- The days are long but the decades are short.
- The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire.
- The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next.
- The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true
- The excesses of our youth are draughts upon our old age, payable with interest, about thirty years after date.
- The function of a man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
- The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.Carl RogersSourced
- The greatest calamity is not to feel far from home when you are, but to feel right at home when you are not.
- The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose.