Quotes
Quotes about Life
Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.
Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And this our life, exempt from human haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
Advertising is the life of trade.
Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.
Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches. - Mannequin: My Life as a Model.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'.
Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim. - The Business of Life.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life.
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. . -Lin Yutang.
One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
