Quotes about: life

There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry.
– Donald Grant Mitchell
I cannot solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art.
– Tina Modotti
As an American I wish my Dad had been elected. Personally I think my life is easier than it would have been in terms of having a career.
– Eleanor Mondale
Some of the most important people in my life would be shocked to learn that they were role models. They weren't celebrities, or even particularly accomplished. But they had some quality that I admired, that made me want to be like them.
– Donn Moomaw
I can't imagine not having music in my life, playing for myself or for other people.
– Dudley Moore
In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.
– Alberto Moravia
There are many reasons for keeping a diary: to make a note of facts that one considers important; to open one's heart, to give vent to one's feelings, to make confessions; from the instinct of economy which sometimes encourages a writer to make good use of even the smallest crumbs of his life, so that he may have one more book to publish; or again from vanity and self-satisfaction.
– Alberto Moravia
As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived.
– Daniel Morgan
I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.
– Alanis Morissette
When you lay your life out there, you want it to be as true as possible.
– Jim Morris
Life is act, and not to do is death.
– Lewis Morris
The Bible is unique also in terms of its effect on individual men and on the history of nations. It is the all-time best seller, appealing both to hearts and minds, beloved by at least some in every race or nation or tribe to which it has gone, rich or poor, scholar or simple, king or commoner, men of literally every background and walk of life.
– Henry Morris
This was a splendid life. Splendid in its obscurity and humility, splendid in its strength and charity, splendid in its achievements.
– Robert C. Mortimer
I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.
– Anna Mary Robertson Moses
Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.
– Grandma Moses
One of life's gifts is that each of us, no matter how tired and downtrodden, finds reasons for thankfulness: for the crops carried in from the fields and the grapes from the vineyard.
– J. Robert Moskin
Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
– Robert Motherwell
Wherever art appears, life disappears.
– Robert Motherwell
The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.
– Lucretia Mott
Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.
– Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Undoubtedly, to protest secured people against terrorism is to protect the right to life in a society of believers that glorifies life and freedom.
– Hosni Mubarak
Prayer is not merely an occasional impulse to which we respond when we are in trouble: prayer is a life attitude.
– Walter A. Mueller
If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India.
– Max Mueller
You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.
– Mike Murdock
Playing baseball is not real life. It's a fantasy world... It's a dream come true.
– Dale Murphy
The first time I heard Dusty Springfield sing, I became smitten with her voice. The times we have worked together over the years have been some of the most memorable of my life. She is a very special lady and my favourite singer of all time.
– Anne Murray
When you realize you're alive, you can live life!
– Chad Michael Murray
I didn't care if the flippin Capital tower fell on its side and rolled into the ocean with everyone in it. I have never seen such a display of hateful, selfish, self-centered flips in my life.
– Dave Mustaine
Way of life in Australia focuses more on the outdoors.
– Thomas Muster
In the phrases of songs and poems bread is gold, it is the motherland, it is the hard work of the masses, it is life itself.
– Seth Mydans
A real parish is a wondrously beautiful web of human relationship which is given meaning by the man who is Himself the meaning of life.
– C. Kilmer Myers
Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.
– Vladimir Nabokov
For almost 70 years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
– Ralph Nader
Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
– V. S. Naipaul
In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.
– John Naisbitt
I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.
– Joe Namath
I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.
– Ogden Nash
I am a huge believer in giving back and helping out in the community and the world. Think globally, act locally I suppose. I believe that the measure of a person's life is the affect they have on others.
– Steve Nash
I have to say I've worked very few days of my life. I used to have to cut the lawn, and when I was in junior high school, I worked at a concession stand at a stadium.
– Steve Nash
I'm not a joiner of clubs... But this is a pretty cool club to be in. The past inductees are brilliant, brilliant musicians that have touched my life in many ways, and to be worthy of such company is flattering to me and I appreciate it.
– Graham Nash
If every human being disappeared off the face of the earth in an instant, the earth would still keep spinning and the planet would develop new life forms.
– Graham Nash
My mother, originally Margaret Virginia Martin, but called Virginia, was herself also born in Bluefield. She had studied at West Virginia University and was a school teacher before her marriage, teaching English and sometimes Latin. But my mother's later life was considerably affected by a partial loss of hearing resulting from a scarlet fever infection that came at the time when she was a student at WVU.
– John Nash
A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
– George Jean Nathan
I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.
– Gloria Naylor
I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.
– Sam Neill
My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.
– Horatio Nelson
Americans of all ages deserve quality end-of-life medical care.
– Bill Nelson
Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.
– Kent Nerburn
Remember that you don't choose love; love chooses you. All you really can do is accept it for all its mystery when it comes into your life. Feel the way it fills you to overflowing then reach out and give it away.
– Kent Nerburn
Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.
– Gerard De Nerval
The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.
– Gerard De Nerval
When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.
– Gerard De Nerval
What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.
– Louise Nevelson
Growth is the only evidence of life.
– John Henry Cardinal Newman
I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.
– Olivia Newton-John
I simply have a marvellous life, a very lucky life.
– Olivia Newton-John
My cancer scare changed my life. I'm grateful for every new, healthy day I have. It has helped me prioritize my life.
– Olivia Newton-John
There's a balance in my life, there's reality and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end.
– Olivia Newton-John
How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.
– Jack Nicklaus
I hated Chris, my brother. I would pull his hair and kick him, until one day my father gave him permission to fight back. I'll be apologizing to him for the rest of my life.
– Stevie Nicks
Singing is the love of my life, but I was ready to give it all up because I couldn't handle people talking about how fat I was.
– Stevie Nicks
Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.
– Reinhold Niebuhr
Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
– Reinhold Niebuhr
All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Art is the proper task of life.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
The lie is a condition of life.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
This secret spoke Life herself unto me: Behold, said she, I am that which must ever surpass itself.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Without music, life would be a mistake.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life - or am I mass-motivated?
– Earl Nightingale
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
– Earl Nightingale
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
– Earl Nightingale
Dreams are necessary to life.
– Anais Nin
I know why familles were created, with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.
– Anais Nin
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
– Anais Nin
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
– Anais Nin
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
– Anais Nin
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.
– Anais Nin
I see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in .
– David Niven
The only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping and showing off his shortcomings.
– David Niven
Tomorrow, Trubshawe, I am going to get married again, thereby quite possibly making the greatest mistake of my life.
– David Niven
I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious to advance the political career of my husband.
– Pat Nixon
A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself. Only then does he discover all the latent strengths he never knew he had and which otherwise would have remained dormant.
– Richard Milhous Nixon
Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.
– Richard Milhous Nixon
Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that's it's not going to be accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not outweigh the pain --if you recognize historically that always happens, then when it comes, you survive it.
– Richard Milhous Nixon
The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
– Richard Milhous Nixon
This is a burden I shall bear for every day of the life that is left to me.
– Richard Milhous Nixon
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.
– Emil Nolde
A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.
– Chuck Noll
I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me and so when I hit the stage I just sensed freedom. I sensed here's a place that I can have all the experiences of life and not feel uncomfortable about it.
– Nick Nolte
If you're older you want to tell stories about the pool of human life and living and to communicate, not only to your age group but to do an age group that can begin to understand, that has enough experience of life far beyond the taste of life.
– Nick Nolte
You do come to a point where you can get your life in control a bit. But going through life, you discover these deep, dark things in yourself that you can't run away from, so you have to learn to embrace them. I mean, the difference between a murderer and myself is only that I choose not to do it. But I'm totally capable.
– Nick Nolte
Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.
– Kathleen Norris
There are men I could spend eternity with. but not this life.
– Kathleen Norris
The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.
– Frank Norris
The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
– Frank Norris
When men see how relevant the ten commandments are for economics, they should gain new respect for the importance of the laws of God for all of life, but especially for the life of dominion man, the man redeemed by grace through faith in the one true Dominion Man, Jesus Christ.
– Gary North