Skip to content
QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

Tag: life

3 December 2020 Debra Messing

When you’re passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.

3 December 2020 Victor Hugo

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

3 December 2020 Erma Bombeck

Children make your life important.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

3 December 2020 Corita Kent

Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.

3 December 2020 Aristotle

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

3 December 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’

3 December 2020 Kevin Costner

I haven’t lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that’s from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them.

3 December 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

3 December 2020 Steven Wright

Babies don’t need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach… it pisses me off! I’ll go over to a little baby and say ‘What are you doing here? You haven’t worked a day in your life!’

3 December 2020 William James

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

3 December 2020 O. Henry

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

3 December 2020 Elbert Hubbard

Life is just one damned thing after another.

3 December 2020 Sara Teasdale

Life is but thought.

3 December 2020 Socrates

The unexamined life is not worth living.

3 December 2020 Joseph Campbell

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

3 December 2020 Elbert Hubbard

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

3 December 2020 Rebecca West

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

3 December 2020 Albert Einstein

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

The lie is a condition of life.

3 December 2020 H. L. Mencken

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

3 December 2020 Ben Stein

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower

There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

3 December 2020 Rose Kennedy

Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.

3 December 2020 Charles R. Swindoll

Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.

3 December 2020 George Herbert

Life is half spent before we know what it is.

3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

3 December 2020 William Osler

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.

3 December 2020 Thomas Merton

Every moment and every event of every man’s life on earth plants something in his soul.

3 December 2020 Douglas Adams

Life is wasted on the living.

Posts navigation

«Previous Posts 1 … 14 15 16 17 18 … 21 Next Posts»

Tags

age alone amazing art beauty best business change dad death education experience faith fear food freedom funny future god happiness health history home hope knowledge learning marriage mom money morning movies Music Nature Peace Poetry Politics relationship Religion Respect Science Society Success Truth War Women

Recommend Quotes

  • Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Albert Einstein
  • George Bernard Shaw
  • Mahatma Gandhi
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • Oscar Wilde
  • Plato
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Mark Twain
  • Aristotle
  • Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • Voltaire
  • Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • William Shakespeare
  • Victor Hugo
  • Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Honore de Balzac
  • Marcus Aurelius
  • Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Sophocles
  • Ernest Hemingway
  • Alexander Pope
  • Confucius
  • Charles Baudelaire
  • Martin Luther
  • Pablo Picasso
  • Sigmund Freud
  • Gustave Flaubert
  • Stephen Hawking
  • Charles Dickens
  • Ovid
  • Thomas Aquinas
  • Thomas A. Edison
  • Euripides
  • John Lennon
  • Socrates
  • Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Leonardo da Vinci
  • Friedrich Schiller
  • Albert Schweitzer
  • Pope John Paul II
  • Paulo Coelho
  • Mother Teresa
  • Baruch Spinoza