Quotes
Quotes about Life
On that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.
That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to another, without helping himself.
What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult to each other.
My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.
Knowledge, without common sense," says Lee, is "folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death." But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.
I've never known any human being, high or humble, who ever regretted, when nearing life's end, having done kindly deeds. But I have known more than one millionaire who became haunted by the realization that they had led selfish lives. -B. C. Forbes.
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, or a new country.
The tree of knowledge is not that of life.
The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing. [Lat., Vitam perdidi laboricose agendo.]
To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.
Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.
Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.
There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.
Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing. [Lat., Vitam perdidi laboricose agendo.]
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
Tell them I've had a wonderful life.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridicule; you can no more exercise your reason if you live in the constant dread of laughter, that you can enjoy your life if you are in the constant terror of death.
The law of heaven and earth is life for life.
