Life Quotes

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.

Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.

The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.

An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.

Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.

The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.

The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings.

I used to wake up in the morning and say, 'Oh, God.' Now I wake up in the morning and look forward to life.

Loud is a way of life.

Every musician, their goal in life is to play music that people love, and I've accomplished my goal. I was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and left that chapter of my life and those people in the past. Good and bad, I've loved and am thankful for that chapter.

I have to say, the coolest person I ever met in my whole life is John Mellencamp. I never met a person who was more secure about himself and his person.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.

I don't dream at night; life has given me the stuff I need to be able to dream during the day. I'm very lucky.

I think everything happens for a reason and all the things that happened to me - good, bad - I'm glad they did. It's made me ready for life, for adulthood.

I couldn't ask for a better life.

I mean, I couldn't ask for a better life, man.

What good is it to live a life that brings pains?

Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.

We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.

I'm much more interested in what an actor has to say about something substantial and important than who they're dating or what clothes they're wearing or some other asinine, insignificant aspect of their life.

Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.

I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 96% how I react to it.

Yes, for a long time but I admired her and respected everything that I could sort of see in her from a distance, the pillars of her life, the loyalties, the relationships. It all got my interest and also the looks.

You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward.

I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.

The social disease of political correctness has entered daily life, inverting good to bad and attempting to rewrite proud histories as an imposition of white supremacy for which we all should make contrition.

Well, all life forms are dependent upon water.

Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary.

Keep going on hikes, keep having your friends in your life, keep that downtime sacred as well because as hard as you work in any job, it's really nice to have the relaxing de-stressors. Stress is the worst thing. That's the ultimate demise of any good thing.

I think it's important to keep your personal life to yourself as much as you can. It protects your sanity and you need to have boundaries. And it helps that enchantment of watching an actor. If you know someone's favourite colour or what they like to do on a Sunday, you won't fall for the character as much.

It's really sad looking at people like Lindsay Lohan. She's an amazing actress, but you see what happens when people know too much about your personal life. They start not being able to look at you the same way professionally. I don't want that to happen to me.

I do reinvent old hits of mine and sort of give them a new life.

I'm content with life, and I'm finally at that place where I feel relaxed and can really enjoy what's going on around me.

It's impossible to redefine yourself and your life overnight.

I think all of us as women have this super-human quality. We create life, we give life, we are the sources of life for our children - we're all pretty bionic.

I knew there would be a negative reaction in the press to my divorce, but I am not going to live my life because of something someone might say.

Everybody needs that one person that takes you to the right place to see all the positives in your life.

I was really glad to meet Jane Clark because it did give me an insight. I couldn't imagine what kind of woman she was. I was hugely impressed by her energy, straightforward nature and enthusiasm for life.

I just feel very often like a child in an absolutely weird world. I think that life is quite weird sometimes.

After having my baby I felt like I'd been introduced to my life, I slowed down, I paid more attention to simple things, I addressed a few issues in my own life, I even got married, I looked at what was important and what wasn't, and so I used that experience for inspiration.

I never grew up thinking the goal in life was to be a millionaire. All the way through college, I had a part-time job. I worked hard to get the things that you need at that age.

The arts are a major life nourishment.

At some point in my life, before I was gone, I wanted to make an album, even if it was for no reason other than posterity.

I was just so blatantly shy throughout my life.

I kind of had my life planned out for me. I'd be married at some point, have, you know, 1.5 children, and be a principal possibly one day. But I think that that was kind of my problem. I allowed myself to plan out my life and didn't let provident direction guide my life.

I decided to study special education and fell in love with working with individuals with autism. That's what I planned to do with my life.

But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much.

As I got older, I really got into Tupac's poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was into.

You know how a lot of people say, 'I lose myself in music,' or 'I like to escape,' but I want my music to be more of an awakening. I want it to make people to be aware of life; I don't want my music to be a distraction. I want to light a path.

Everybody fears the unknown. But I have a strong feeling there's something bigger than us. I don't think all this exists because some rocks happened to collide. I'm at peace. When it comes, I'll be fine, calm. I'll miss life, though. Especially my family.

Obama's the one who never worked a day in his life. He never earned a penny that wasn't public money. How many fund-raisers does he attend every week? How often does he play basketball and golf? I wish I had that kind of time.

One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.

In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort.

My heroes are the non-commissioned officers. If I had another life that's what I'd be - a regimental sergeant major or a similar rank. That's where the spirit of the armed forces is.

The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.

Life is wasted on the living.

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.

Old age is just a record of one's whole life.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.