10,588 quotes
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
Henry James
Writer · American · 1843 – 1916
These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
Philosopher · American · 1842 – 1910
City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.
Mason Cooley
Writer · American
When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart.
George W. Bush
President · American · b. 1946
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
Rebecca West
Author · Irish · 1892 – 1983
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Woody Allen
Director · American · b. 1935
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
Jonathan Swift
Writer · Irish · 1667 – 1745
Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
Albert Einstein
Physicist · German · 1879 – 1955
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.
Albert Schweitzer
Theologian · German · 1875 – 1965
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
Oscar Wilde
Dramatist · Irish · 1854 – 1900
As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
Charles Baudelaire
Poet · French · 1821 – 1867
By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
Samuel Johnson
Author · English · 1709 – 1784
There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
George Eliot
Author · British · 1819 – 1880
Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.
Henry Miller
Author · American · 1891 – 1980
Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Poet · English · 1772 – 1834
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins
Editor · American · b. 1915
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Dale Carnegie
Writer · American · 1888 – 1955
Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
Blaise Pascal
Philosopher · French · 1623 – 1662
The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.
Honore de Balzac
Novelist · French · 1799 – 1850
A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
Thomas Hobbes
Philosopher · English · 1588 – 1679
If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers.
Bo Bennett
Businessman · American · b. 1972
We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
Albert Camus
Philosopher · French · 1913 – 1960
I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.
Ronald Reagan
President · American · 1911 – 2004
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
Author · American · 1817 – 1862
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
Benjamin Disraeli
Statesman · British · 1804 – 1881
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
Horace
Poet · Roman
Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
Charles Dickens
Novelist · English · 1812 – 1870
The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.
Stanislav Grof
Psychologist · Czechoslovakian · b. 1931
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
Carl Jung
Psychologist · Swiss · 1875 – 1961
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Writer · American · 1809 – 1894
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
Theodore Roosevelt
President · American · 1858 – 1919
When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
Thomas Carlyle
Philosopher · Scottish · 1795 – 1881
Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.
Confucius
Philosopher · Chinese
I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.
Jean Rostand
Scientist · French · 1894 – 1977
Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
John F. Kennedy
President · American · 1917 – 1963
Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.
Doug Coupland
Author · Canadian · b. 1961
No serious-minded man should have time for the mediocre in any phase of his living.
James Cash Penney
Businessman · American · 1875 – 1971
We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.
Franz Kafka
Novelist · Austrian · 1883 – 1924
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Edgar Allan Poe
Poet · American · 1809 – 1849
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Eleanor Roosevelt
First Lady · American · 1884 – 1962
There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
Wayne Dyer
Psychologist · American · b. 1940
Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poet · German · 1749 – 1832
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
Samuel Butler
Poet · British · 1835 – 1902
You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.
It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
Eric Hoffer
Writer · American · 1902 – 1983
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.