Source Unknown Quotes on Life (94 Quotes)

A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters ''I never stole anything in my life. All I ask is a chance.''

Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy Face life now

After all, life is really simple we ourselves create the circumstances that complicate it.

To fear death is to misunderstand life.

If you look for the positive things in life you will find them.

Good sense is the master of human life.

Life is a game but golf is serious.

Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

A long tongue shortens life.

Boredom is a disease of the mind and psyche, an insidious disease. It not only takes the joy out of life, but the creativity as well. No one of God's children should ever be bored with life.

Your life may be the only Bible some people read.

Making a life comes before making a living.

Family means too much, Friends are too valuable, And life is too short, To put-off sharing with people, How much they really mean to you, And pursuing whatever it is that makes you happy.

Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

The most vital thing in a man's life is his mental attitude.

There are only two things you HAVE TO do in life. You HAVE TO die. You HAVE TO live until you die. You make up all the rest.

Your life can't go according to plan if you have no plan.

Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

Each class of society has its own requirements but it may be said that every class teaches the one immediately below it and if the highest class be ignorant, uneducated, loving display, luxuriousness, and idle, the same spirit will prevail in humbler life.

Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life.

Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

As a result of trying to solve the big problems we face in life, many of us end up sacrificing individual relationships by doing things that we may consider as being small or insignificant at the time. This reminds us of the George and Gracie routine where George asks Gracie, How do you cook a pot roast She replied, I put both a big pot roast and a small pot roast in the oven. When the small one is burnt, the big one is done just right

One of the horrors of hell is the undying memory of a misspent life.

In golf as in life it is the follow through that makes the difference.

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

Life is queer with its twists and turns, As everyone of us sometimes learns, And many a failure turns about, When he might have won had he stuck it out, Don't give up though the race seems slow, You may succeed with another blow, Success is failure turned inside out, The silver tint of the clouds of doubt, And be near when it seems so far, So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit, It's when things seem worse, That you must not quit.

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life.

Life is tragic for those who have plenty to live on and nothing to live for.

His life was a sort of dream, as are most lives with the mainspring left out.

Life is like a penyou can cross outbut never erase

Winner expects to win in advance. Life is a self-fulfilling prophesy.

Hope is the golden thread that should be woven into every experience of life.

The end of life is life. Life is action, the use of one's powers. And to use them to their height is our joy of duty.

Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.

The happiness in this life does not consist of being devoid of passion, but mastering them.

If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.

Life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself

It is far more important that one's life should be perceived than it should be transformed for no sooner has it been perceived, than it transforms itself of its own accord.

I have often told you that I am that little fish who swims about under a shark and, I believe, lives indelicately on its offal. Anyway, that is the way I am. Life moves over me in a vast black shadow and I swallow whatever it drops with relish, having learned in a very hard school that one cannot be both a parasite and enjoy self-nourishment without moving in worlds too fantastic for even my disordered imagination to people with meaning.

Many people realize their hearts desires late in life. Continue learning, never stop striving and keep your curiosity sharp, and you will never become too old to appreciate life.

To save time is to lengthen life.

Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over