Life Quotes

Cloning will enable mankind to reach eternal life.
– Claude Vorilhon
If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this 'vale of tears'.
– Claude Vorilhon
To live forever should not be an obligation. In fact, eternal life should only be for those who wish for it, because if we are depressed and unhappy with our lives, just the idea of living forever is an unbearable source of suffering.
– Claude Vorilhon
All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.
– Jane Wagner
I had lived a charmed life, and then I lost a beautiful woman I loved with all my heart.
– Robert Wagner
All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners... Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing... not moving toward excellence.
– Denis Waitley
Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.
– Denis Waitley
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
– Denis Waitley
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
– Denis Waitley
Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.
– Denis Waitley
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
– Denis Waitley
Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.
– Denis Waitley
That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.
– Denis Waitley
The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.
– Denis Waitley
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
– Denis Waitley
The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.
– Denis Waitley
Winners are people with definite purpose in life.
– Denis Waitley
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
– Alice Walker
I'm into being a dad, that's where my focus is most of the time. I'm an actor that's my job, but it's not my life. I have a lot of other interests too.
– Paul Walker
A woman can do anything. She can be traditionally feminine and that's all right; she can work, she can stay at home; she can be aggressive; she can be passive; she can be any way she wants with a man. But whenever there are the kinds of choices there are today, unless you have some solid base, life can be frightening.
– Barbara Walters
I was a skinny, scrawny guy. I stuttered horrendously, couldn't speak at all. I was a very shy, reserved player and a very shy, reserved person. I found a safe place in life in basketball.
– Bill Walton
Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old.
– Bill Walton
One of the greatest men to ever walk this land was Dr. Martin Luther King,Jr. His life exemplified unity by bringing people together for the good of all. In any small way I hope to someday bring people together like Dr. King.
– Zack Wamp
With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.
– Zack Wamp
In life, satisfaction is experienced when activities are brought to a state of completion. Loss of energy and loss of control are functions of incompletion. The result of completing things releases one's ability to create. Prioritize any items that need to be completed, set a completion date, then do it.
– William Arthur Ward
Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
– Charles Dudley Warner
[I am] pro-choice with limitations, pro-life with exceptions.
– John Warner
When I finished school, I took my entire life savings - $5,000 - and invested it in a business. I was young. I was inexperienced. But I was an entrepreneur, and I was proud. And in six weeks, I was broke.
– Mark Warner
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
– Earl Warren
In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
– Earl Warren
In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
– Earl Warren
In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.
– Earl Warren
Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.
– Earl Warren
A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself-half your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with life, you get released.
– Robert Penn Warren
How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.
– Robert Penn Warren
The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.
– Robert Penn Warren
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
– Booker T. Washington
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
– George Washington
Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.
– Denzel Washington
I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.
– Muddy Waters
If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
– Bill Watterson
The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.
– Bill Watterson
Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.
– Simone Weil
Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.
– Simone Weil
Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.
– Simone Weil
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
– Simone Weil
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
– Simone Weil
Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.
– Otto Weininger
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
– Fay Weldon
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
– Orson Welles
I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.
– Eudora Welty
Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.
– Eudora Welty
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
– Mae West
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
– Morris West
A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.
– Rebecca West
You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.
– Jerry West
Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
– Edith Wharton
Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
– Edith Wharton
Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
– E. B. White
A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.
– Minor White
I hope young people will see how I changed my life and how it's up to them to make changes in their own lives to succeed.
– Barry White
A gent I know whose life is superfluidity. Took a job in CBS Continuity. One night after too much Scotch paregoric, He turned in a script just too prehistoric. He was fired and said, as he read his doxology I thought they would like my Paley-ontology.
– Paul W. White
It is born to every Western girl to like outdoor life and to do all kinds of wild, daring things.
– Pearl White
Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
– Alfred North Whitehead
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
– Alfred North Whitehead
One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.
– Alfred North Whitehead
Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
– Walt Whitman
I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
– Elie Wiesel
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
– Elie Wiesel
It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or death.
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox
'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
– Oscar Wilde
If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself you rise from the table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days.
– Oscar Wilde
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
– Oscar Wilde
Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.
– Oscar Wilde
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
– Oscar Wilde
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
– Oscar Wilde
To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
– Oscar Wilde
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
– Oscar Wilde
You know grief. You've had it in your own life. But I don't use it directly. It's processed through my acting instincts, the bit of me that knows about those things, so when it comes out it's not my grief that you're seeing, it's the grief of that character. It's active imagination.
– Tom Wilkinson
You really don't want a president who is a football fan. Football combines the worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
– George F. Will
I'm not an over-dominant person. I don't go around and expect everyone to listen to me the whole time. But I like to be in control of my life because I have so many people around me, I can get pulled in one direction and then the other. If I don't have any say in it, then I end up just losing complete control and I don't like the idea of that. I could actually lose my identity.
– Prince William
A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
– Tennessee Williams
Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.
– Tennessee Williams
Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
– Tennessee Williams
Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.
– Tennessee Williams
The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?
– Tennessee Williams
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
– Tennessee Williams
All my life I've been waiting for this, and now it can happen. A Williams is going to win.
– Richard Williams
All my life I've kinda dreamed of being the best, and doing the best, and it hasn't always been easy for me. So I've been trying, but it's really special to have come such a long way, it's just really fulfilling. And the fact that I'm just making history right now and the fact that I was able to win four in a row, it doesn't happen every day.
– Serena Williams
I'm not used to crying. It's a little difficult. All my life I've had to fight. It's just another fight I'm going to have to learn how to win, that's all. I'm just going to have to keep smiling.
– Serena Williams
The real task was to write songs that were believably bad. It was one of the best jobs I've ever had in my life.
– Paul Williams
Vote with your life; vote yes!
– Paul Williams
Ayurveda deals with using your environment to put yourself in balance. I've realized, both on a psychological and physical level, that the things we do in football don't bring more harmony to your life. They just bring more disharmony.
– Ricky Williams
I can't cook to save my life.
– Robbie Williams
I have to be careful what I ask for in life, 'cause I always seem to get it! The good thing is, I've got a purpose now, whereas before my purpose was to go out and party.
– Robbie Williams
I'm a bit hesitant to do anything because I'm actually kind of lazy and I'd like an easier life from now on. The world's a massive place with lots of early mornings and late starts when you're working.
– Robbie Williams
I'm really, really enjoying myself, I seem to have a lot of purpose in my life. I'm enjoying what I'm doing, you know, and people are liking it. So, it's great, you know.
– Robbie Williams
I've never, ever, raised a fist to anybody in my life.
– Robbie Williams
Some of the best times in my life happened under the influence of drugs... I'd still be doing it if I could make good judgement calls. I'd still be doing it if I didn't blow up to the size of an aircraft hangar, because it was a great time.
– Robbie Williams