Life Quotes

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Friedrich Schiller
- Life
- Honesty
The key that unlocks energy is desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.

Earl Nightingale
- Long
- Real
- Energy

The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.

Benjamin E. Mays
- Life
- Failure
- Complacency
The biggest mistake in my life was hiring Eaton as chairman without checking him out first, ... I didn't know him and hired the wrong guy, an error of judgment. When you make a bad people choice it hurts a lot of people for a long time.

Lee Iacocca
- People
- Time
- Long
I majored in political science and English, but starting from the age of 17, I've paid for everything that I've had in my life. It was a personal choice. My parents would have helped me in any way whatsoever, but for me, you know what? I can make my own way.

Gary Johnson
- Age
- Parents
- Science
I'm not going to go around with a long face - that's a waste of time

Doris Day
- Time
- Long
- Family
Through the fortunate effect of my frankness, I had the rarest and surest opportunity to know a man well, which is to study him at leisure in his private life and living, so to speak, with himself. For he share himself without reservation and made me feel as much at home in his house as in mine. I had almost no other abode than his own.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Home
- House
- Opportunity
Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.

P. T. Barnum
- Life
- Money
- Fire