Life Quotes

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.
– Anthony Trollope
As the proud father of two teens and past Chairman to the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, I am committed to educating parents and especially young people on ways to live a long, healthy and active life.
– Lee Haney
As the President has indicated, my life has been a life of travel - for 60 years constantly moving over the wide world on journeys which first and last have taken me to 83 countries, and, what is more significant, to most of them again and again.
– John Raleigh Mott
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
– Cyril Connolly
As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
– Al Yankovic
As my dad said, you have an obligation to leave the world better than how you found it. And he also reminded us to be givers in this life, and not takers.
– Phil Crane
As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.
– Albert J. Nock
As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.
– Jeanne Moreau
As long as women are in the work force making their own money and decisions, men are going to have to realize that this way of life is here to stay - because it takes two incomes to make it and more now. The sooner you address your style of saving and spending with your mate the better off your relationship will be.
– Patti Stanger
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century.
– Kenzaburo Oe
As I got older, I really got into Tupac's poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was into.
– Jhene Aiko
As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore.
– Edward Witten
As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything. If you do, you're screwed.
– Drew Carey
As far as 'Twilight' goes, I'm in love with my character. I'm in love with the whole series. I love doing the fan conventions around the world, I love to travel. So wherever it fits in, I'd love to continue doing that for the rest of my life. Just meeting the fans who made everything possible from around the world.
– Kellan Lutz
As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.
– Gloria Swanson
As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom - not least freedom of conscience.
– Jon Meacham
As an actor you have to have a strong vivid imagination as you're working and when the camera's rolling, but there's certainly a part of you that is aware of real life, that you're making a movie.
– John Hawkes
As a small business owner for the last 15 years, when I think of what truly changed my life, it was my faith, a strong family, my mom did a really, really good job of encouraging me in very clear and discernible ways.
– Tim Scott
As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sense of humor. Very talented, of course, but very caring to his parents. There was a very endearing quality about Elvis.
– Priscilla Presley
As a mom, I always feel I have to protect them. I talk about them because they are the most important things in my life but they are private people. I won't use them for my own press.
– Jami Gertz
As a kid, this is what I wanted my life to be. Not in my wildest dreams did I ever dare to dream that it would be this.
– Smokey Robinson
As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.
– Daniel Craig
As a kid, I grew to define what I didn't want my life to be like by sitting behind moaning women on the bus, hearing them bang on about their aches and pains, both real and imagined.
– Julie Burchill
As a freelance writer, I'd be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or wine or history or the life span of veterinarians. I was completely unschooled in any of these things.
– John Hodgman
As a father, I do everything my dad didn't do. My son Beau's birth changed my life.
– David Cassidy
As a famous person you think how you're gonna end it, get away and have a normal life.
– Gwen Stefani
As a dad I'm emotionally dedicated but I'm not 'figuring out their life plans'. But of course as I'm telling them about the rights of wrongs I'm thinking back to what I was like at their age.
– Peter Mullan
As a child, I didn't know what I didn't have. I'm thankful for the challenges early on in my life because now I have a perspective on the world and kind of know what's important.
– America Ferrera
Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.
– Claude Debussy
Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.
– Arne Jacobsen
Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
– Oscar Niemeyer
Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit.
– Lillie Langtry
Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understanding of what is real and what is important, and when you are going through different moments, you can reflect and go, 'I have been through worse.'
– Delta Goodrem
Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.
– Adam Brody
Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
– Wislawa Szymborska
Any fool can make enough money to survive. It's another thing to keep yourself consistently entertained. It's a lot of work, and a lot of fun, to make a life.
– Robert Fulghum
Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.
– Carter Burwell
Another side to me is this very sexual being. When I look back on my life, it's always been there. It's been there since I was 10 years old, having the imagination that I had.
– Janet Jackson
Another Black Label motto. That's what I think life is. It's just another bridge to cross. You ask no questions. Whatever work it is you gotta do, you gotta go over it, under it, through it, around it, to do it.
– Zakk Wylde
Ann Romney makes all women proud by the way she has conducted her life as a strong woman of faith, as a mother, as a wife and as a true patriot.
– Nikki Haley
Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.
– Emmylou Harris
And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned.
– Lynn Redgrave
And we know there has been horrendous loss of life and suffering and we know that there is anger. Anyone who came anywhere near the general election in constituencies with a substantial Muslim population knows that.
– Clare Short
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
– William Shakespeare
And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected.
– Chris Christie
And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve.
– Tim Tebow
And so I look at it as a relationship that I have with him that I want to give him the honor and glory anytime I have the opportunity. And then right after I give him the honor and glory, I always try to give my teammates the honor and glory. And that's how it works because Christ comes first in my life, and then my family, and then my teammates.
– Tim Tebow
And let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America's first liberty: the freedom of religion.
– Mitt Romney
And it was back in the mid-1980s, and as I point out in a piece, that was when we are spending about eight percent of our gross domestic product on health care. And even then, we had the impression that so much of the excessive, aggressive medical treatment that took place at the end of life was not only unnecessary but it was cruel.
– Richard Dooling
And it is because a series of elements in Spanish life which operate today the same way as they did in the times of Blanco White made obvious my relationship with him, based on a similarity in Spain's condition.
– Juan Goytisolo
And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present.
– John Guare
And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.
– Maximilian Schell
And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.
– Stephen King
And in my own life, in my own small way, I've tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. That's why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service, working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities. Because I believe that each of us - no matter what our age or background or walk of life - each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation.
– Michelle Obama
And I trusted someone to look after me on the business side of life.
– Elton John
And I think what people in New Jersey have gotten to know about me over the last decade that I've been in public life is what you see is what you get. And I'm no different when I'm sitting with you than I am when I'm at home or anyplace else.
– Chris Christie
And I just think that we're at a point in our economic life here in our state - and - and, candidly, across the country, where increased taxes is just the wrong way to go. The people of our state are not convinced that state government, county government, local government has done all they can with the money we already give them, rather than the money that we have before.
– Chris Christie
And I found out, the other part of it is that I found out and in my desire to life successfully, that baseball fit very well into my life. It's been a great teacher, trainer, mentor and you'll see what I mean in the next few minutes that I have to speak.
– Dave Winfield
An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.
– Jose Marti
An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.
– Madalyn Murray O'Hair
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
– Robert A. Heinlein
An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.
– Robin Quivers
An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.
– Fred Allen
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.
– Samuel Adams
Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.
– Haruki Murakami
Americans different in some maybe thoughts or emphasis still have the same ideas. They want a government that lets them be free, that leaves them alone, that doesn't interrupt and interfere with every aspect of their life, that lets them go to work and keep more of what they've worked hard to have.
– Mike Huckabee
America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.
– Meryl Streep
Amazingly when you add life and consciousness to the equation you can actually explain some of the biggest puzzles of science.
– Robert Lanza
Always, through my whole life, I've had a thirst for knowledge.
– Emmitt Smith
Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life.
– Jeanne Calment
Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation.
– Swami Sivananda
Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
– Nagarjuna
Although religion was around me my whole life I never felt it was forced upon me. It is my centring, my grounding, the soul of me. I feel I'm nothing without it.
– Nicole Scherzinger
Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!
– Greg Anderson
Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.
– Anna Pavlova
Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.
– Vera Wang
Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything.
– William Shatner
Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.
– Fritz Sauckel
Also, the more you're not focused on showbiz and instead focused on life, learning about other people, and keeping your eyes open and trying to be aware of the world.
– Jason Schwartzman
Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things.
– Ron Perlman
All through my life what I've loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it is incredible to be able to be in them as much as I am, to see them from the first stitch in a costume to the end product.
– Keira Knightley
All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.
– Jessica Lange
All those lessons that I've learned on the court, I have applied them to my life outside of the court in business, my company, called V Starr interiors, an interior design company, and EleVen, which I wear on court.
– Venus Williams
All this stuff is so mind-blowing to me that I get to do in my life. Throwing the first pitch out at the White Sox game on a random Wednesday? Like who am I? How did I get this life? I'm glad I'm not jaded, and little kids are the least jaded people in the entire world, so it's fun to be around people that still find wonder in how cool things are.
– Jonah Hill
All the legal action I've taken against newspapers has had a massively positive effect on my life and achieved exactly what I wanted, which is privacy and non-harassment.
– Sienna Miller
All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.
– Abbas Kiarostami
All people hope Islam helps everything in life. Islam will make jobs. Islam will make freedom. Islam will make everything.
– Ahmed Ali
All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
– Danny Thomas
All my life, it's been the same with men. Being a woman who is famous and adored by men is very hard for any boyfriend to handle. All my boyfriends end up insecure.
– Samantha Fox
All my life, I have loved and been inspired by French cinema, and as a studio head it has been my pride and joy to have the ability to bring movies to audiences around the world.
– Harvey Weinstein
All my life, Americans have been accustomed to thinking of theirs as 'the richest, freest' country in the world. By most measurements, it was long a contender for that honor, and - among the larger countries, if equal weight were given to wealth and indices of freedom - probably did deserve to be so described.
– Conrad Black
All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.
– Jock Sturges
All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.
– Tommy Lee Jones
All movies aren't fun some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.
– Samuel L. Jackson
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
– Thomas Mann
All I ever wanted really, and continue to want out of life, is to give 100 percent to whatever I'm doing and to be committed to whatever I'm doing and then let the results speak for themselves. Also to never take myself or people for granted and always be thankful and grateful to the people who helped me.
– Jackie Joyner-Kersee
All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility. That responsibility has been abdicated here by some in the media and some in the government.
– Steven Hatfill
All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.
– James M. Baldwin