Life Quotes

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon, deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost . .

Greatness after all, ion spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

A desire for bigness has hurt many folks. Putting oneself in the limelight at the expense of others is a wrong idea of greatness. The secret of greatness rather than bigness is to acclimate oneself to one's place of service and be true to one's own convictions. A life of this kind of service will forever remain the measure of one's true greatness.

Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great street-sweeper who did his job well'

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.

Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do no pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would have thus been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.

If there is any responsibility in the cycle of life it must be that one generation owes to the next that strength by which it can come to face ultimate concerns in its own way.

If you live long enough, you'll see every victory turn into a defeat.

. . . He had by now divested himself of schoolboy attitudes. He was unburdened by the desire to be a martyr or a hero. Any thoughts in that direction, Belgica effectively had quashed. Heroism in the corrupt sense of the age almost by definition, meant wanton self-sacrifice and bungling. For neither had he any taste. He wanted rational attainment; victory, but not at any price. No point upon the globe was worth the cost of a single life.

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.

This planet has or rather had a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it was not the small pieces of paper that were unhappy.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!

The lives and happiness of our children, as far ahead as the mind can reach, depend on us today. If we succeed, posterity looking back will record that this was indeed man's finest hour.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor - poor in happiness, poor in all that makes life worth living.

In our daily lives, we must see That it is not happiness that makes us grateful , But the gratefulness that makes us happy.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Happiness is always a byproduct. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Ten Spiritual Tonics 1. Stop worrying. Worry kills life. 2. Begin each day with a prayer. It will arm your soul. 3. Control appetite. Over-indulgence clogs body and mind. 4. Accept your limitations . . . 5. Don't envy. It wastes time and energy. 6. Have faith in people. Cynicism sours the disposition. 7. Find a hobby. It will relax your nerves. 8. Read a book a week to stimulate imagination and broaden your views. 9. Spend some time alone for the peace of solitude and silence. 10. Try to want what you have, instead of spending your strength trying to get what you want.

It is not by accident that the happiest people are those who make a conscious effort to live useful lives. Their happiness, of course, is not a shallow exhilaration where life is one continuous intoxicating party. Rather, their happiness is a deep sense of inner peace that comes when they believe their lives have meaning and that they are making a difference for good in the world.

Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

What is without us has no connection with happiness, only so far as the preservation of our lives and health depends upon it. . . . Happiness springs immediately from the mind.

Not every age allows its sons to reap the results which remain great for all time, and . . . not every century is fitted to make the men who live in it distinguished and happy.

If you would find happiness and joy, lose your life in some noble cause. A worthy purpose must be at the center of every worthy life.

Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness. This happiness is the simplest and least costly kind, and it cannot be purchased with money. But it can be increased if we do two things: if we recognize and uphold the essential values of family life and if we get and keep control of the process of social change so as to make it give us what is needed to make family life perform its essential functions.

So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.

Unhappiness is the hunger to get; happiness is the hunger to give. . . . If the individual should set out for a single day to give happiness, to make life happier, brighter and sweeter, not for himself but for others, he would find a wondrous revelation of what happiness really is.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honorably.

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.

That state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts....take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

We must never surrender. America will get better and better. Keep hope alive. Keep hope alive.

I don't dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living.

Yesterday is but a vision, and tomorrow is only a dream. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a dream of hope.

Make no little plans, they have no magic to stir men's blood and will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble and logical plan never dies, but long after we are gone will be a living thing.

Dreaming permits each of and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.

We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

Our policy is simple: We are not going to betray our friends, reward the enemies of freedom, or permit fear and retreat to become American policies, especially in this hemisphere. None of the wars in my lifetime came about because we were too strong.

It's not always easy to do the right thing. But, doing the right thing makes you strong, it builds character, it forces you to make decisions based upon your beliefs and not what other people think. In life, and in business, you have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone. But, what makes you a leader is having the courage of your convictions.

If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you'll be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

The long span of the bridge of your life is supported by countless cables called habits, attitudes, and desires. What you do in life depends upon what you are and what you want. What you get from life depends upon how much you want it, how much you are willing to work and plan and cooperate and use your resources. The long span of the bridge of your life is supported by countless cables that you are spinning now, and that is why today is such an important day. Make the cables strong!

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.

No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.

Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Man's flight through life is sustained by the power of his knowledge.

Insecurity exists in the absence of knowledge.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life.

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

Consider your origins: you were not made that you might live as brutes, but so as to follow virtue and knowledge.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning today is young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Knowledge and understanding are life's faithful companions who will never prove untrue to you. For knowledge is your crown, and understanding your staff; and when they are with you, you can possess no greater treasures.

Knowledge of our duties is the most essential part of the philosophy of life. If you escape duty you avoid action. The world demands results.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people that you know about yourself.

Our lives teach us who we are.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control , These three alone lead life to sovereign power.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

In times of change the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves self- discipline with all of them came first.

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

He who lives without discipline dies without honor.

You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck.

I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work.

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.

If you are truly flexible and go until . . . there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

To insure good health: Eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.

We squander health In search of wealth; We scheme and toil, and save, Then squander wealth In search of health; And all we get's the grave; We live and boast of what we own; We die . . . and only get a stone.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid.

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.

People who laugh actually live longer than those who don't laugh. Few persons realize that health actually varies according to the amount of laughter.

Reputation is the shell a man discards when he leaves life for immortality. His character he takes with him.

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to his or her commitment to excellence, regardless of his or chosen field of endeavor.

Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy soul for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then, with a continuous series of such thoughts as these that where a man can live, there if he will, he can also live well.

Good habits are not made on birthdays, nor Christian character at the new year. The workshop of character is everyday life. The uneventful and commonplace hour is where the battle is lost or won.

Sad is the day for any man when he becomes absolutely satisfied with the life he is living, the thoughts that he is thinking and the deeds that he is doing; when there ceases to be forever beating at the doors of his soul a desire to do something larger which he seeks and knows he was meant and intended to do.

Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.

It is an old saying, and one of fearful and fathomless import, that we are forming characters for eternity. Forming characters - Whose? Our own or others? Both and in that momentous act lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

When you exercise your freedom to express yourself at the lowest level, you ultimately condemn yourself to live at that level.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.

One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Genius develops in quiet places , Character out in the full current of human life.

Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life.

A good name is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost forever.

When I discipline myself to eat properly, live morally, exercise regularly, grow mentally and spiritually, and not put any drugs or alcohol in my body, I have given myself the freedom to be at my best, perform at my best, and reap all the rewards that go along with it.

Passing the veil does not alter a man; it certainly takes him from the eyes of flesh, but the capacity, the intelligence, the thinking powers, are all alive and quick; and if they hear the Gospel they will be glad, and the promises are made to them, and they will rejoice in them.

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

Four things come not back: The spoken word, The sped arrow, The past life, The neglected opportunity.

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

In a free society, every opportunity comes with three obligations. First, you must seize it. You must mold it into a work that brings value to others. Second, you must live it. Opportunity is nurtured only by action. Third, you must defend the freedom to pursue opportunities. You must embrace these three obligations as if the future of the United States depended on it. In fact, it does.

To improve the golden moment of opportunity and catch the good that is within our reach is the great art of life.

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat, And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.

They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson is life who does not every day surmount a fear.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.

The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, its energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.

It's a very funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that is not going to be accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not outweigh the pain - if you recognize historically that always happens, then when it comes, you survive it.

natural selection, or the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life.

I thought: If I was lucky enough to live, I'd change, myself - I realized I could have a new life-new energy, new endurance, and feel better about myself.

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My life turned around when I began to believe in me.

The Bhagavad-Gita is a true scripture of the human race a living creation rather than a book, with a new message for every age and a new meaning for every civilization.

your private life is public, that's what happens. Over the years, I've got used to that. Sometimes they write wonderful things, sometimes they write what a fool you are. That's part of what it is to be in the public eye.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

The boy's name was Santiago. Dusk was falling as the boy arrived with his herd at an abandoned church.