Quotes about: life

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do?
– Bill Gates
I actually may do a musical next year... not one that I've written one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people's work and all of a sudden you've got a very full life.
– Harvey Fierstein
I actually have more respect for people who are in the closet. You end up exposing so much of yourself because you have to talk about your sexual life. You shouldn't have to talk about it.
– Randy Harrison
I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessings I've had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy works.
– Ken Blanchard
Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.
– Robert Falcon Scott
Humor is imperative, more important than food. You have a choice when someone dies. You can lie down or get back into life. Do something for someone else.
– Doris Roberts
Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.
– George Arliss
However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life.
– Robert Casey
How many deaf people do you know in real life? Unless they live in a cave, or are 14, which seems to be true for most people in this business, what could I possibly tell them that they don't already know?
– Marlee Matlin
How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.
– Jim Valvano
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
– Logan P. Smith
Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.
– Samuel Richardson
Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.
– Vaclav Havel
Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.
– Zig Ziglar
Honest to God, all my life I have had such a fear of spiders. In fact, I use to have a reoccurring dream about one. Very clearly, it was black with a red head. It would sit up in the corner of the bedroom and when it started getting closer, I would wake up in a panic.
– Tippi Hedren
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
– Henrik Ibsen
Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
– George Bernard Shaw
Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.
– Ryan Phillippe
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
– Joan Lunden
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
– Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.
– Langston Hughes
History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way.
– Wendell Willkie
Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.
– Stephen Covey
His imagination conceived and bore - worlds but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life and, sooner or later, he invariably found it.
– Algernon H. Blackwood
Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized.
– Mike Ditka
Here's the thing that I think about life - if you manage to get into a space where you don't need that much, where the overhead of your life is not that great and you're pretty happy and relaxed without that much stuff, you are really liberated because you never have to say yes to something because you want another refrigerator or car!
– Brit Marling
Here's the thing about movies, all movies end up on television. That's their life. Whether you like it or not, I don't care how much money you spend on it, or how big or broad the film is, or who the actors are in it, eventually it's all coming out of the box.
– Greg Kinnear
Here's a news flash: No soldier gives his life. That's not the way it works. Most soldiers who make a conscious decision to place themselves in harm's way do it to protect their buddies. They do it because of the bonds of friendship - and it goes so much deeper than friendship.
– Eric Massa
Here comes 40. I'm feeling my age and I've ordered the Ferrari. I'm going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.
– Keanu Reeves
Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
– Samuel Johnson
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
– George Sand
He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.
– Thomas Szasz
He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
– Samuel Butler
Having to travel so much plays havoc with your personal life.
– Renee Fleming
Having good health, being able to breathe and be happy, that's one of the most beautiful gifts. On top of that, I have the gift to play music and make people happy through that. I'm just telling you from my heart, I'm so in love with life.
– Roy Ayers
Having Down syndrome is like being born normal. I am just like you and you are just like me. We are all born in different ways, that is the way I can describe it. I have a normal life.
– Chris Burke
Having a child makes you realize the importance of life - narcissism goes out the window. Heaven on earth is looking at my little boy. The minute he was born, I knew if I never did anything other than being a mom, I'd be fine.
– Jenny McCarthy
Have you ever loved somebody, loved her completely, but had to end the relationship for life reasons?
– John Mayer
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
– W. Clement Stone
Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
– Abu Bakr
Have a sense of humor about life - you will need it. And be courteous.
– Peter Jennings
Hats have been my thing pretty much my whole life but finance has not. I would go to the corner store and buy really cheap baseball style caps and wear those to school.
– Ne-Yo
Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.
– Liu Xiaobo
Haters never win. I just think that's true about life, because negative energy always costs in the end.
– Tom Hiddleston
Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.
– Valerie Bertinelli
Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.
– Richard Dreyfuss
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
– Will Rogers
Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.
– Shawn Johnson
Growing up my whole life, my mom was telling me how incredible and special I was and that I was going to change the world. I think it's important for girls to know that they can change the world, that they do have an impact.
– Ashley Greene
Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.
– Caitlin Rose
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
– Jean de la Bruyere
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.
– Edward Hopper
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.
– John Milton
Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories. I thought, 'Who's choreographing this stuff?'
– Sue Monk Kidd
Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.
– Publilius Syrus
Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.
– Rachael Ray
Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.
– Ian Mckellen
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
– Swami Vivekananda
God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done.
– Stevie Wonder
God created the world the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.
– Pat Robertson
God continues to work miracles in my life.
– Willie Aames
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Girlfriend and 100 Percent Fun were my two peeks, around '92 and '96. The reality is that the times I had the most media success, sold lots of records and played bigger shows, I had the least control of my own life.
– Matthew Sweet
Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can't do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.
– Jamie Lee Curtis
Getting pregnant wasn't easy, and I found that devastating. I really beat myself up for waiting so long when I'd always wanted children and family had been the basis of my happiness my whole life.
– Emily Procter
Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
– Samuel Johnson
Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.
– General Robert E. Lee
Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.
– Daisaku Ikeda
Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.
– Taylor Momsen
Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is, closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this attitude has been forced upon you by mass media and the crass culture it creates and maintains. The fact is, gardening is just the opposite - it is, or should be, a central, basic expression of human life.
– Andrew Weil
From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever That dead men rise up never That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
– Algernon Charles Swinburne
From time to time, I'll look back through the personal journals I've scribbled in throughout my life, the keepers of my raw thoughts and emotions. The words poured forth after my dad died, when I went through a divorce, and after I was diagnosed with breast cancer. There are so many what-ifs scribbled on those pages.
– Hoda Kotb
From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.
– Christopher Morley
From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life.
– Dirk Benedict
From 7 in the morning to 11 at night, I was reading. I don't think one can find any other time in one's life to be left alone so much to read in peace like that.
– Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
– James F. Byrnes
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
– Elie Wiesel
Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.
– Mitt Romney
Freedom is control in your own life.
– Willie Nelson
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
– Bertrand Russell
Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.
– Knute Rockne
Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
– Karen Horney
Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.
– Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.
– William Banting
For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
– Steve Jobs
For the last 20 years of my life, I've had the mantra to do amazing parts with amazing people in amazing projects, so I'm attracted to good story, writing and character and good people. That's what I'm always searching for and I don't think that's ever going to change.
– John Hawkes
For the first time ever I was taking the family on the road. We stayed with my in-laws, which on life's list of experiences ranks right below sitting in a tub full of scissors.
– Jeff Foxworthy
For the first few years of my life my mom used to cut my hair so there were a lot of bowl-cut hair styles.
– Ne-Yo
For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
For some reason I can't explain, artist and musicians tend to look younger than our age. Being in music, you need this youthful sense of discovery and wonder for what you're doing and keep your imagination open. That's a youthful way of looking at life and I think that reflects in how you age.
– Joshua Bell
For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.
– Patricia Highsmith
For my scale, how I grew up and live my life, I'm making plenty of money.
– Louis C. K.
For most of my life, I've thought of myself as pretty cool.
– Nikki Giovanni
For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.
– Christopher Hitchens
For me, Twitter works best as a way of taking pictures of being stuck in traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge. If people really want to read really funny quips about life, parenting, and pop culture, then by all means read Michael Ian Black's tweets.
– Michael Showalter
For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
– Tahar Ben Jelloun
For me, life has either been a wake or a wedding.
– Peter O'Toole
For me, just being how old I am, I know I don't want to be a single mom. I really would rather make it a two-person job. But I've also come to terms with not being a mother at all. I'm actually really good with either direction that my life can take as being a valid experience.
– Lisa Edelstein
For me, first, it's finding quiet in my life - and I do that through yoga and meditation. It's also been a matter of changing the way I eat, because I think what we eat can inform who we are food is a chemical and a drug to a certain extent.
– Mariel Hemingway