Quotes
Quotes about Life
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck.
It is the privilege of genius that to it life never grows commonplace as to the rest of us.
Genius develops in quiet places, character out in the full current of human life.
Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the crème de la crème. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
Like madness is the glory of this life As this pomp shows to a little oil and root.
This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.
When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.
Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want.
In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.
The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.
If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never loseâsomehow we win out
Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
If you're bored with lifeâ you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do thingsâyou don't have enough goals.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. Golf is more complicated than that.
Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!
There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.
Far more important to me is, that I should be loyal to what I regard as the law of my political life, which is this: a belief that that country is best governed, which is least governed ...
Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.
