Life Quotes

Life is too short to miss out on the beautiful things like a double cheeseburger.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it.

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.

There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.

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!

The success of any stand-up act comes out of life experience.

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

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.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

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.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

My life is a struggle.

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

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.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

I think there's nothing better than laughing in life, so that's nice, to be thought of as someone who can make someone laugh. It's 'cause I think life is hard. You know, my dad was a really silly man. A great Irish silly man. And that's fine.

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.

My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.