Quotes To Live By

• Thug Life to me is dead. Tupac Shakur

• I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes. Henry Rollins

• Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. Rose Kennedy

• If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit. William J. Clinton

• Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is. Jorge Luis Borges

• Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships. Stephen Covey

• I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney

• I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do? Bill Gates

• Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. Oscar Wilde

• The less routine the more life. Amos Bronson Alcott

• Sometimes I'm not angry, I'm hurt and there's a big difference.

• The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life. Plato

• Life is to be entered upon with courage. Alexis de Tocqueville

• Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. Voltaire

• I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. John Burroughs

• I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life. Muhammad Ali

• You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself. Drew Barrymore

• Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love. Gabriel Byrne

• The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. Jim Rohn

• No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Steve Jobs

• What you get is a living, what you give is a life. Lillian Gish

• Life has a higher end, than to be amused. William Ellery Channing

• Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. Neale Donald Walsch

• You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. Winston Churchill

• Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on. Robert Frost

• I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I just go on from day to day, taking what comes. Frank Sinatra

• Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can't find the work they studied for, or any work at all. So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years? Paul Ryan

• In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds. Aristotle

• If you're married, and you have a wife, and you really love your wife, is it good enough to only say to your wife 'I love her' the day you get married? Or should you tell her every single day when you wake up and every opportunity? And that's how I feel about my relationship with Jesus Christ is that it is the most important thing in my life. Tim Tebow

• Character develops itself in the stream of life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice. Khalil Gibran

• All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another. Anatole France

• It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. Marcus Aurelius

• What they're not ready for is guys like you and I and Nails and all the other gnarly gnarlingtons in my life, that we are high priests, Vatican assassin warlocks. Boom. Print that, people. See where that goes. Charlie Sheen

• The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical. Julius Erving

• My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead. Barack Obama

• Don't ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving person because if you don't, the past will come back to haunt and keep coming back to haunt you. Boris Kodjoe

• If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. Bruce Lee

• If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. Joseph Addison

• You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want. Zig Ziglar

• Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that? Marilyn Monroe

• We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be. Lauren Hutton

• It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn. Plato

• Don't let life discourage you everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. Richard L. Evans

• I'm back to doing everything I used to, loving life as ever. Donna Mills

• Where there is love there is life. Mahatma Gandhi

• Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth. Bradley Whitford

• Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around. Katharine Hepburn

• The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me. Oprah Winfrey

• The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. Audrey Hepburn

• Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living? Mahatma Gandhi

• Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times. Martin Luther

• We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion. Max de Pree

• Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. Mark Twain

• There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments. Chris Rock

• It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others. Sydney J. Harris

• My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring. Prince William

• Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it. Samuel Smiles

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

• A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown. Denis Waitley

• What is called genius is the abundance of life and health. Henry David Thoreau

• We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. Joseph Campbell

• For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. Khalil Gibran

• When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous. Wayne Dyer

• Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. Frank Lloyd Wright

• For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment. Viktor E. Frankl

• There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were. Dwight D. Eisenhower

• The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live. Aristotle

• The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first. Ginger Rogers

• It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life. Julius Caesar

• Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

• I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it. Walt Disney

• I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. Theodore Roosevelt

• Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. Omar Khayyam

• For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance. Mignon McLaughlin

• Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. 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. Charles R. Swindoll

• I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets. David Herbert Lawrence