Life Quotes

There's many a life of sweet content, whose virtue is environment.
– Walter Learned
The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.
– Michael Leboeuf
Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.
– Michael Leboeuf
Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here. At the beginning. Hell is what the infant must experience before he gets to us.
– Frederick Leboyer
There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have some secret message. We have no spiritual affiliation with this music. It's simply about life experience.
– Amy Lee
Just as he lived on his own terms, advocating for the rights of human beings, the rights of those who were forgotten or ignored, from victims of rape in Africa, to the homeless on streets worldwide, he chose to move into a more abundant life, not from a hospital bed, but from his home in Vatican City. Today I, along with so many Americans, continue to pray for Pope John Paul II.
– Sheila Jackson Lee
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.
– Ursula K. LeGuin
If I have lived by any maxim as a reporter, it was that every person is an expert on the circumstances of his life.
– Joseph Lelyveld
We're all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.
– Sugar Ray Leonard
For the atom's soul is nothing but energy. Spirit blazes in the dullest of clay. The life of every woman or man - the heart of it - is pure and holy joy.
– George B. Leonard
There is only one immutable law in life - in a gentleman's toilet, incoming traffic has the right of way.
– Hugh Leonard
Life is too serious to be taken seriously.
– Mike Leonard
What a rotten writer of detective stories life is!
– Nathan Leopold
When one creates phantoms for oneself, one puts vampires into the world, and one must nourish these children of a voluntary nightmare with one's blood, one's life, one's intelligence, and one's reason, without ever satisfying them.
– Eliphas Levi
The aims of life are the best defense against death.
– Primo Levi
I compare the current era to the industrial revolution. Over a few generations, unevenly but still irresistibly and with great pain, the technological leap from traditional agricultural society brought profound transformations in every aspect of life, not only economic and political but social, cultural and moral.
– Flora Lewis
Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.
– Joshua L. Liebman
I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labor movement.
– Astrid Lindgren
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.
– Stanley Lindquist
I shall give you hunger, and pain, and sleepless nights. Also beauty, and satisfactions known to few, and glimpses of the heavenly life. None of these you shall have continually, and of their coming and going you shall not be foretold.
– Howard Lindsay
All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.
– Jacques Lipchitz
If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment... quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.
– Chris Evert Lloyd
I want to be a good person and live my life the right way, keeping in mind that there might be a little kid who's watching what I do.
– Rebecca Lobo
I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.
– William J. Lock
I chose to do this because I am a fan. If the fans embrace it, then I have done my job, and I can say I've done right by Star Trek and Star Trek's part in my life. If they reject what I've done, then I've made a serious miscalculation about what other fans like me want.
– John Logan
A deceased man has the right to breathe life into the womb of his wife and prove that love is stronger than death.
– Paul Lombard
To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.
– William Londen
The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.
– Haniel Long
When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.
– Haniel Long
How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
– Barry Lopez
Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
– George Horace Lorimer
In life there are no winners, only assholes with Swiss Bank Accounts.
– Matthew Lotti
Somehow you can tell the difference when a song is written just to get on the radio and when what someone does is their whole life. That comes through in Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson. There is no separating their life from their music.
– Lyle Lovett
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
– Alex Lowe
The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
– Lucan
It's important to hold something back, though, because quite frankly my personal life is pretty dull and I don't want to bore people with it.
– Matt Lucas
A fulfilling life is different to each person. You have to acknowledge your dreams, and not just wait for life to happen, and opportunities to come knocking at your door.
– Joan Lunden
While a handful of countries and a small number of people are leading ample life, dozens of countries and billions of people in Africa, Asia and Latin America are being left in absolute poverty.
– Tran Duc Luong
The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.
– John Lyly
Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.
– Thomas Lynch
I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?
– General Douglas MacArthur
Life is a lively process of becoming.
– General Douglas MacArthur
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
– George MacDonald
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
– George MacDonald
We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.
– George MacDonald
I get so exhausted with people's perception of what I must be like to be 40 when it's actually wonderful. It's incredibly fabulous. I've never felt sexier in my whole life. I can wear sexy clothes because I've got an incredible body and I happen to be 43 but it's really not that hard, all you have to do is work out a little bit and it's not like everything is falling apart.
– Andie MacDowell
I've had young guys come on to me and I can't do it. I'm just not into it. I just can't do it. I think partially because my life circumstances are different. I have a 14-year-old son, and I wouldn't want to embarrass or humiliate my kids in any way, so I wouldn't allow myself to be attracted to a younger man.
– Andie MacDowell
My life in Montana is so diverse from my Hollywood life that it even feels odd for me to go from one life to the other.
– Andie MacDowell
A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
– Niccolo Machiavelli
Humanity is the keystone that holds nations and men together. When that collapses, the whole structure crumbles. This is as true of baseball teams as any other pursuit in life.
– Connie Mack
I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. And from that moment, my life changed.
– Shirley MacLaine
I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.
– Shirley MacLaine
I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I'm actually sleeping with him.
– Shirley MacLaine
Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.
– Archibald MacLeish
I think you have to deal with the confused situation that we're faced with by seizing on the glimpses and particles of life, seizing on them and holding them and trying to make a pattern of them. In other words, trying to put a world back together again out of its fragmentary moments.
– Archibald MacLeish
It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.
– Archibald MacLeish
The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.
– Archibald MacLeish
The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
– Archibald MacLeish
Sixty-three years ago the unemployment figure was 29 percent. Last November it was 28 percent. A rather sad end to one's life.
– Harold MacMillan
Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.
– Maurice Maeterlinck
All the people throughout my life who were naysayers pissed me off. But they've all given me a fervor; an angry ambition that cannot be stopped-and I look forward to finding a therapist and working on that.
– Tobey Maguire
I love exploring psychology and getting inside someone's head or exploring the dynamics of how couples behave, and I would love to continue finding projects where I have the chance to address those kinds of issues. And sometimes there are going to be moments in my life where I will probably want to play some wild or sick character just to shake things up. I can't just be that nice, reserved guy all the time!
– Tobey Maguire
I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.
– Tobey Maguire
I've been curious about certain things, but didn't let them get in the way of my life. I don't know how people becoem successful with some kind of habit.
– Tobey Maguire
If I'm in a social situation sometimes I'll hang back and observe people but I feel very much a part of things most of the time and feel very comfortable socializing and have for most of my life.
– Tobey Maguire
To me, the whole idea of fame and I think it can be a real test of somebody, of who they are. You know, 'cause some strange things happen. I've seen some peculiar things as far as a person just living their life.
– Tobey Maguire
You simply cannot control other people's thoughts or actions and you can't even necessarily control your own thoughts and feelings, you know? All you can do is make your choices of what you do with your life and what your actions are and sometimes when you do let things go and you're more passive or more active. And, you know, it's just interesting and it's important to keep on top of myself and be super honest with myself.
– Tobey Maguire
I have a high state of resentment for the conformity in this country. If you're not married and having children, it's like your life is empty or you're a communist meanie.
– Bill Maher
In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.
– Joseph de Maistre
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
– Bernard Malamud
There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
– Bernard Malamud
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
– Bernard Malamud
Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.
– Maxwell Maltz
Of all the traps and pitfalls in life, self-disesteem is the deadliest, and the hardest to overcome, for it is a pit designed and dug by our own hands, summed up in the phrase, It's no use-I can't do it.
– Maxwell Maltz
People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to look forward to - to work for and hope for.
– Maxwell Maltz
We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
– Maxwell Maltz
Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.
– Og Mandino
Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.
– Og Mandino
To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.
– Og Mandino
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
– Horace Mann
An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
– Thomas Mann
The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.
– Thomas Mann
This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected - in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
– Thomas Mann
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.
– Katherine Mansfield
Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.
– Katherine Mansfield
Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.
– Katherine Mansfield
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.
– Katherine Mansfield
It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.
– Mickey Mantle
Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.
– Mickey Mantle
Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.
– Orison Swett Marden
Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us.
– Orison Swett Marden
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
– Orison Swett Marden
No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more - to be happy and successful - than much money.
– Orison Swett Marden
The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
– Orison Swett Marden
Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.
– Orison Swett Marden
I'm a very happy man. In everyday life, just walking around, I'm a fairly pleasant person to be around most of the time. Basically, I'm pretty mellow. Really, the only time I ever get upset is when I'm playing football. When things aren't going right or something, that's when I get the most upset.
– Dan Marino
I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
– Dan Marino
I've been a Dolphin for 17 years, and I'll be a Dolphin for the rest of my life. That will never change.
– Dan Marino
Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!
– Edwin Markham
The crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood.
– Edwin Markham