Quotes
Quotes about Life
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.
It is a pretty mocking of the life.
To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
Assail'd by scandal and the tongue of strife, His only answer was a blameless life; And he that forged, and he that threw the dart, Had each a brother's interest in his heart.
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent. My main purpose in life is to make money so that I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it. I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. The dove is my emblem.
Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best. Life's most soothing things are sweet music and a child's goodnight.
Most wondrous book! bright candle of the Lord! Star of Eternity! The only star By which the bark of man could navigate The sea of life, and gain the coast of bliss Securely.
Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live.
And the cold marble leapt to life a God.
Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.
The scupltor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.
Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity; they seem more afraid of life then of death.
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature or do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, though the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.
Because authority, though it err like others, Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself That skins the vice o' th' top; go to your bosom, Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know That's like my brother's fault; if it confess A natural guiltiness such as is his, Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue Against my brother's life.
Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight.
The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically. If we do not, no strength of arms can permanently oppose it.
The men and women who have the right ideals ... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.
