Life Quotes

But to us, probability is the very guide of life.
– Joseph Butler
That which is the foundation of all our hopes and of all our fears; all our hopes and fears which are of any consideration: I mean a Future Life.
– Joseph Butler
In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
– Charles Buxton
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.
– Robert Byrne
Life's to short for chess.
– Henry James Byron
It is that, but really, it's about how we don't recognise the little things in life, or appreciate the little things in life like belonging. A sense of belonging is a big thing today.
– James Caan
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation.
– Eileen Caddy
Gratitude helps you to grow and expands; gratitude brings you and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.
– Eileen Caddy
Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.
– Eileen Caddy
Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.
– Eileen Caddy
It was just everyday living. With me, it was fighting, more fighting, and more fighting. Life then was simply the way it was: ordinary, not bad, not good, just regular. No stress, no strain. Of course, no one had much of anything, but we didn't know that we were poor.
– James Cagney
Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the bulk of our Herculean efforts are keel-hauled before our very eyes.
– Michael Caine
Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.
– Taylor Caldwell
The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.
– John C. Calhoun
An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.
– Maria Callas
Real friends are very special, but you have to be careful because sometimes you have a friend and you think they are made of rock, then suddenly you realise they're only made of sand. It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven't.
– Maria Callas
Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.
– Julia Cameron
Life is a creative endeavor. It is active, not passive. We are the yeast that leavens our lives into rich, fully baked loaves. When we experience our lives as flat and lackluster, it is our consciousness that is at fault. We hold the inner key that turns our lives from thankless to fruitful. That key is Blessing.
– Julia Cameron
Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.
– Julia Cameron
For me, rationalizing skills training is neither a political fetish nor a form of currency used between governments. Above all, it is the logical solution to a very real human problem. By making better use of the resources we devote to training, we will instill hope in Canadian men and women who ask nothing more than to live a life of dignity.
– Kim Campbell
I have met thousands of Canadians individually-in their homes, in their communities, in every province across the country. From my home province of British Columbia to Newfoundland, I have sensed the deep desire in Canadians of every age to get involved, to become part of our life as a nation, to have control of their own lives. And it is clear that a strong bond still exists between our Party and Quebecers.
– Kim Campbell
The man from the east end of Montreal who has worked all his life on the line should not be forced to accept handouts when the plant closes. He should be given the chance to retrain or to start his own business. He should be given every opportunity to continue to contribute to the community that he probably has spent his life helping to build.
– Kim Campbell
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
– Albert Camus
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
– Albert Camus
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
– Albert Camus
She was a woman attempting to make some sense of, and get some satisfaction from, a life that seemed to have no more logic than a roulette wheel.
– Vincent Canby
One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
– Elias Canetti
When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.
– Elias Canetti
Physicians must be free to make clinical determinations, in accordance with medical standards of care, that best safeguard a woman's life and health. Women and their families, along with their doctors, are simply better than politicians at making decisions about their medical care.
– Maria Cantwell
I am going to St. Petersburg, Florida, tomorrow. Let the worthy citizens of Chicago get their liquor the best they can. I'm sick of the job-it's a thankless one and full of grief. I've been spending the best years of my life as a public benefactor.
– Al Capone
Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
– Truman Capote
Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.
– Al Capp
I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
– Harry Caray
I know I can be diva-ish sometimes, but I have to be in control. The nature of my life, the nature of what I do, is divadom, it really is.
– Mariah Carey
I prayed very hard for this to happen and it happened. I don't even think about what I've achieved, I haven't focused on it and I wish I had, because I really want to enjoy it, and I don't know if I am enjoying it, because I am going through my life like a bulldozer. I still haven't marvelled at it.
– Mariah Carey
I'm not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to get attention. Some things are better left unsaid.
– Mariah Carey
If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count.
– Mariah Carey
The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about.
– Tucker Carlson
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
– Thomas Carlyle
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
– Thomas Carlyle
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
– Thomas Carlyle
That monstrous tuberosity of civilized life, the capital of England.
– Thomas Carlyle
When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
– Thomas Carlyle
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!
– Thomas Carlyle
Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
– Thomas Carlyle
I want to keep audiences off balance, so they don't know who I am or how to take me. If I duck and weave, as Frank Bruno might say, I'll have a longer shelf life.
– Robert Carlyle
Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.
– Bliss Carman
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
– Dale Carnegie
Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
– Dale Carnegie
There are no words, no paints to express all this, only a beautiful dumbness in the soul, life speaking to life.
– Emily Carr
Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.
– Alexis Carrel
While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
– Lewis Carroll
If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
– Johnny Carson
If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
– Johnny Carson
It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.
– Angela Carter
Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.
– Angela Carter
For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.
– Jimmy Carter
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
– Jimmy Carter
Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.
– Jimmy Carter
I was shown round Tutankhamun's tomb in the 1920s. I saw all this wonderful pink on the walls and the artefacts. I was so impressed that I vowed to wear it for the rest of my life.
– Barbara Cartland
I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.
– Joyce Cary
I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.
– Pablo Casals
I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
– Pablo Casals
The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
– Pablo Casals
I think the first time I knew what I wanted to do with my life was when I was about four years old. I was listening to an old Victrola, playing a railroad song. The song was called, Hobo Bill's Last Ride. And I thought it was the most wonderful, amazing thing that I'd ever seen.
– Johnny Cash
So, I learn from my mistakes. It's a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there's no gain. I found that to be true in my life. You miss a lot of opportunities by making mistakes, but that's part of it: knowing that you're not shut out forever, and that there's a goal you still can reach.
– Johnny Cash
I've had three biographies made about my life so people know an awful lot about me.
– David Cassidy
You know I got kicked out of high school and I used to go to Hendrix concerts. I used to go see Marvin Gaye and B.B. King and so here I am on television as an actor playing the part of this really sweet wholesome all American boy. The reality was I had a much different kind of teenage life.
– David Cassidy
I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.
– Fidel Castro
I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
– Fidel Castro
What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
– Willa Cather
I've been playing sexually aware women most of my life. At this point I expected to be playing moms and wives. It's exciting to play a femme fatale.
– Kim Cattrall
People assume that for me to play a sexually open character like Samantha, I must have had fabulous sex for most of my life.
– Kim Cattrall
Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.
– Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Living, just by itself - what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting - or he'll come along and nibble your brain.
– Louis-Ferdinand Celine
One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.
– Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.
– Miguel de Cervantes
Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.
– Miguel de Cervantes
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
– Miguel de Cervantes
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
– Marc Chagall
I pattern my actions and life after what I want. No two people are alike. You might admire attributes in others, but use these only as a guide in improving yourself in your own unique way. I don't go for carbon copies. Individualism is sacred!
– Richard Chamberlain
I've learned, I think, to be able to distinguish between the necessary and the unnecessary as far as my limited outside time is concerned. Saying no politely is a necessity if one wants to lead any kind of stable life.
– Richard Chamberlain
Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training for the real world. Only men of very strong character surmount this handicap.
– Paul Chambers
The truth is our country, our people, our liberties, and our way of life are under attack by radical Islamic terrorists who kill and destroy in the name of religion.
– Saxby Chambliss
Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
– Sebastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort
The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.
– Sebastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort
There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.
– Sebastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort
The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as long as you can write anything that anyone will buy, but as long as anyone will buy any portion of any right to anything that you ever did write. He just takes ten per cent of your life.
– Raymond Chandler
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
– William Ellery Channing
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
– William Ellery Channing
No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
– Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.
– Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.
– John Jay Chapman
I do not really look back with regret on any feelings or problems I have had in the past. I think I am more able to accept problems as being part of the rough and tumble of life. There are bound to be ups and downs. In retrospect, when you've gotten pasty a tough period, it makes the good things that much better.
– Graham Chapman
The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.
– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities.
– Ray Charles
You ask me what I'd like to do that I haven't done and I say 'Nothin'!' I haven't any mountains to climb or oceans to swim. I've been an extremely blessed individual. I'm not clamorin' for more trinkets. If I were to die tomorrow, I could say I've had a good life.
– Ray Charles
I actually did start performing at a young age and yes, I did do stand-up when I was 9. I did seem to know that I wanted to act very early in my life.
– Josh Charles
My own life planning has always been 10 years ahead. I knew when I was 13 that this was what I wanted to be. Right now I feel about nine months behind where I would have liked to be at age 46. Ten years from now, I'd like to be doing what I'm doing and collecting more interest.
– Chubby Checker
All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.
– John Cheever