Life Quotes
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I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.
Ruth Gordon
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Scientific education is by far the best training for all walks of life because it teaches us how to assess situations critically and react accordingly. It gives us an understanding based on reverence for life-enhancing technologies as well as for life itself.
Harry Kroto
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If you love your life, you have to fight. If you believe in life and progress and possibilities, you have no choice.
Michael Zaslow
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God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a great entail. It belongs as much to those who are to come after us, and whose names are already written in the book of creation, as to us; and we have no right, by anything that we do or neglect, to involve them in unnecessary penalties, or deprive them of benefits which it was in our power to bequeath.
John Ruskin
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My goal is to give students a real-life picture of what this life is like. Students can really decide whether this is what they want to do.
Chris Smith
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Life is dangerous. That's what makes it interesting.
John Twelve Hawks
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In your life you only get to do so many things and right now we've chosen to do this, so let's make it great.
Steve Jobs
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The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious.
Albert Camus
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My goal in life is to enjoy what I do, and never to look back and say I wish I would have done that.
Mila Kunis
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Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
Lois McMaster
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Fifty - it's going to be for the rest of my life. I'm going to count myself as a 50-year-old, sing like I'm 50, and act like I am, too. That's how I feel, and I believe if you have that frame of mind, it keeps you young.
Engelbert Humperdinck
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An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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When I was asked if I wanted to perform on the Grand Ole Opry, I yelled, 'Are you kidding me?' I've been waiting for that my whole life. To be invited where so many of the greatest country artists have performed is an honor, and I still can't believe it has been bestowed on me. Just to stand in the circle where so many greats have stood-Hank Williams, Kitty Wells, I just couldn't believe it.
Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish
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Some people are going to be happy with my decision, some people aren't... But I must live my life.
Thomas Hearns
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She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for those that she remembered as the worst… Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia. The need to feel sad was becoming a vice as the years eroded her. She became human in her solitude.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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When men are able to influence so many others through their life and their example, they do not die.
Aleida Guevara
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Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.
John Calvin
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People aren't often asked to make life or death decisions. There are no causes to die for. You can go through life never knowing which of your friends would really come through for you.
Arabella Pollen
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My life wasn’t how I planned it would be. It wasn’t even close. It was a thousand times better.
Nicole Williams
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My main purpose in life is to make enough money to create ever more inventions…. The dove is my emblem…. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it…. I am proud of the fact that I have never invented weapons to kill….
Thomas A. Edison
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Live My Life provides a much needed shot of timely, thought-provoking, musically forward, irreverence to the status quo.
Nomi Prins
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It's just life, so keep dancing through.
Stephen Schwartz
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Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton.
Terence McKenna