Quotes about: life

The only time I think about life beyond F1 is when I contemplate becoming a dad. But there's no way that's going to happen while I'm still racing. To be successful in F1 you need to be very selfish in lots of ways and you're away from home for long periods. That's not the kind of father I want to be.
– Jenson Button
The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.
– Maya Lin
The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out. That's why I'm always hoping society never collapses because the first ones to go will be entertainers.
– Kevin Smith
The only thing Martha and I have in common is that we both used to model. Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live.
– Kathy Ireland
The only thing I can't do is hear. I can drive, I have a life with four kids, I work on TV, I do movies, so the deafness question, is it that they want to know because, what? Not sure.
– Marlee Matlin
The only real failure in life is one not learned from.
– Anthony J. D'Angelo
The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.
– James Otis
The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadn't yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion.
– Katherine Dunham
The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into the world. It's astounding. Maybe they can't see or they can't hear, but they walk out into the street and take life as it comes. They're models of courage, in a strange way.
– James Hillman
The Obama administration now has regulations that tells them that they can no longer promote marriage to these young girls. They can no longer promote marriage as a way of avoiding poverty and bad choices that they make in their life. They can no longer even teach abstinence education. They have to be neutral with respect to how people behave.
– Rick Santorum
The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up.
– Andrew Bernstein
The nightmare is you spend the rest of your life being funny at parties and then people say, 'Why didn't you do that when you were on television?'
– Conan O'Brien
The NFL has been an amazing page in this chapter of my life. I pray that all successive adventures offer me the same potential for growth, success and most importantly fun.
– Ricky Williams
The nerds are the ones that make the films and do loads of other really cool stuff in their life.
– Daniel Radcliffe
The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that after a car accident or a bad divorce. Life's filled with trauma. You don't need to go to war to find it it's going to find you. We all deal with it, and the effects go away after awhile. At least they did for me.
– Sebastian Junger
The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my family's relationship with each other.
– Mika Brzezinski
The need to understand prescription information can literally be a matter of life and death.
– Andrew Cuomo
The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn't it?
– Ronnie James Dio
The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
– Adrienne Rich
The most successful person is the one who is most inspired. That is true in food and in life.
– Ron Ben-Israel
The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come if you don't, there's no hope for you.
– Orson Scott Card
The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.
– Audrey Hepburn
The most important thing in my father's life? World peace. Me and my brother. My mom.
– Sean Lennon
The most important thing about technology is that it can seamlessly work its way into your routine and your life.
– John Legend
The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them.
– Steven Seagal
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
– Jean Paul
The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.
– Arthur C. Brooks
The more consistent a father can be or a mentor can be in the person's life and teach them principles of real solid manhood, character, integrity and leadership, the more consistent you can be in the person's life and teach them those things at a younger age, and then the better off they'll be.
– Allan Houston
The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, 'Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.'
– Paul Theroux
The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can do about it.
– Mark Steyn
The minute anyone's getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life.
– Francesca Annis
The military is a very cool world to write about. I went down to Ft. Benning, Ga., for military training, and I learned a lot about soldiers and officers and why they joined up and what their life has been like.
– David Baldacci
The method of political science is the interpretation of life its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.
– Woodrow Wilson
The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?
– Rush Limbaugh
The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty.
– Alexandra Fuller
The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.
– Stephen Hawking
The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.
– Michael Jackson
The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.
– Herman Hesse
The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith.
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
– Edward Everett Hale
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
– E. M. Forster
The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another.
– David O. Selznick
The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
– Bear Grylls
The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.
– Chanakya
The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.
– Honore de Balzac
The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.
– Gilbert Murray
The lessons from the peace process are clear whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
– Queen Elizabeth II
The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.
– Marilyn vos Savant
The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.
– Christopher Lasch
The Law of God reaches into every area of life, and it brings about incredible blessing and incredible freedom.
– Randall Terry
The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.
– Julius Erving
The key to life is your attitude. Whether you're single or married or have kids or don't have kids, it's how you look at your life, what you make of it. It's about making the best of your life wherever you are in life.
– Candace Bushnell
The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.
– Neal Boortz
The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.
– Aleister Crowley
The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.
– George H. Mead
The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.
– Sir Philip Sidney
The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.
– Gustav Mahler
The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
– The Dalai Lama
The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.
– John McEnroe
The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense.
– Talcott Parsons
The importance of human life should be universally respected - and that refers to children before they are born and after. All children have the right to be brought up in a loving two-parent family where the notion of divorce is not even possible.
– Christopher Monckton
The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
– Damien Hirst
The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.
– Giacomo Casanova
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
– Henry Ford
The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
– Soren Kierkegaard
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
– Rabindranath Tagore
The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.
– Celine Dion
The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
– Elbert Hubbard
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
– Samuel Johnson
The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.
– E. W. Howe
The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
– Albert Schweitzer
The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.
– Ray Bradbury
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
– Lord Byron
The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
– George Bernard Shaw
The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.
– Malcolm Gladwell
The Google algorithm was a significant development. I've had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their life on a dating website.
– Tim Berners-Lee
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.
– Ernest Hemingway
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
– Bertrand Russell
The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre.
– Helen Hayes
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
– Thomas Jefferson
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
– Joseph Campbell
The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
– Florence Scovel Shinn
The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.
– Galina Vishnevskaya
The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion things to make life easier for men, in fact.
– Julie Burchill
The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.
– William Graham Sumner
The first lesson I've learned is that no matter what you do in your life, you have to figure out your own internal rhythms - I mean, what works for you doesn't necessarily work for your friend.
– Hillary Clinton
The financial reward is great and I love the life I have, but all money makes possible is for you to stop worrying about money. Then you have freedom to live your life.
– Paul Stanley
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
– Reinhold Niebuhr
The feeling of your baby taking nourishment from your body for the first time is amazing, and it remains the most touching moment of my life.
– Dr. Laura Schlessinger
The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.
– Christopher Lasch
The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.
– Seamus Heaney
The fact is if we do our job right, if we keep worrying not about polls but about the jobs of the American people, about their health care, about their ability to educate their kids, stay in their homes and own their homes, send their kids to college, the basic pillars of a middle-class life, if we keep worrying about the future and building a stronger future for this country, these things will take care of themselves.
– David Axelrod
The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.
– Dee Dee Myers
The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.
– Sally Ride
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.
– Samuel Smiles
The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable when we build here on this the landscape of our homeland we must be clear that we will protect its beauty.
– Fritz Todt
The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.
– Dennis Prager
The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect.
– John Nelson Darby