Famous life Quotes Definitions
source(google.com.pk)Death and taxes and childbirth. There's never any convenient time for any of them.
Margaret Mitchell
The first hundred years are the hardest.
William Mizner
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
Brendan Gill
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.
Chief Seattle
The real malady is fear of life, not of death.
Naguib Mahfouz
Beginnings are often scary, endings are often sad, but it's the middle that counts. You should remember that when you find yourself at the beginning.
Steven Rogers
Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! Throughout the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
Thomas Osbert Mordaunt
With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built as we discern.
Matthew Arnold
St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
Malcom Muggeridge
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
Christopher Morley
We are the voices of the wandering wind, Which moan for rest and rest can never find; Lo! as the wind is so is mortal life, A moan, a sigh, a sob, a storm, a strife.
Edwin Arnold
A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.
Anonymous
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
Donald Trump
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
Alfred Hitchcock
This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
Matthew Arnold
The purpose of life is to fight maturity.
Dick Werthimer
It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Life is just one damned thing after another.
Elbert Hubbard
It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.
Edna St Vincent Millay
The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of plan in life, and the tragic brevity of time.
W.J. Davison
Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.
Fran Lebowitz
Life is something that everyone should try at least once.
Henry J. Tillman
The Answer to the Great Question Of . . . Life, the Universe and Everything . . . [is] Forty-two.
Douglas Adams
Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.
Vittorio Alfieri
We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know.
Matthew Arnold
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Isaac Asimov
Life is a long lesson in humility.
James M. Barrie
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
John Lennon
The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
Norman Thomas
Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Oscar Wilde
Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
Mary Manin Morrissey
You've got to sing like you don't need the money, love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like no one is watching. It's gotta come from the heart, if you want it to work.
Susannah Clark
Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
Hans Christian Andersen
Life is a zoo in a jungle.
Peter De Vries
Life is a sexually transmitted disease.
R. D. Laing
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Robert Heinlein
Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.
Wally 'Famous' Amos
Life is an uncharted ocean. The cautious mariner must needs take Many soundings ere he conduct his barque to port in safety.
Author Unknown
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
Diane Ackerman
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
William Goldman
Live fast, die young, leave a good-looking corpse.
Author Unknown
Life's but a span, or a tale, or a word, That in a trice, or suddaine, is rehearsed.
Author Unknown
Life is just a bowl of pits.
Rodney Dangerfield
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Samuel Butler
If you will do some deed before you die, Remember not this caravan of death, But have belief that every little breath Will stay with you for an eternity.
Author Unknown
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Sir Winston Churchill
I know not if the dark or bright Shall be by lot; If that wherein my hopes delight Be best or not.
Henry Alford
The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
Oscar Wilde
They live that they may eat, but he himself [Socrates] eats that he may live.
Matthew Arnold
Let us live then, and be glad While young life's before us After youthful pastime had, After old age had and sad, Earth will slumber over us.
Author Unknown
Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy.
Richard Halloway
Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each, Even to the meanest; yea, a boon to all Where pity is, for pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.
Edwin Arnold
Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers.
Hans Christian Andersen
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.
Thornton Wilder
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Truman Capote
We come and we cry, and that is life; we yawn and we depart, and that is death!
Ausone de Chancel
There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period of barrenness.
Aristotle
Saw life steadily and saw it whole.
Matthew Arnold
If you are not the lead sled dog, the world looks pretty much the same every day.
Anonymous
As a mortal, thou must nourish each of two forebodings--that tomorrow's sunlight will be the last that thou shalt see; and that for fifty years wilt live out thy life in ample wealth.
Ausone de Chancel
The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man less than a span: In his conception wretched, from the womb so to the tomb. Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years with cares and fears. Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns the water, or but writes in dust.
Francis Bacon
Life is just part of the big picture.
Alyson Goff
Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.
Hans Christian Andersen
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Matthew Arnold
And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?
Archilochus
“If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.”
Dhirubhai Ambani
“The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.”
Mark Caine
“People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.”
Tony Robbins
“When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
Audre Lorde
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
Mark Twain
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
Thomas A. Edison
“If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents. Value what you know & start charging for it.”
Kim Garst
”A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”
David Brinkley
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
Steve Jobs
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.”
Roger Babson
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
Mark Twain
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.”
Vince Lombardi
“Success is about creating benefit for all and enjoying the process. If you focus on this & adopt this definition, success is yours.”
Kelly Kim
“I used to want the words ‘She tried’ on my tombstone. Now I want ‘She did it.’”
Katherine Dunham
“Really it comes down to your philosophy. Do you want to play it safe and be good or do you want to take a chance and be great?”
Jimmy J
“It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
J. K Rowling
“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”
Albert Einstein
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
Harriet Tubman
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
Bruce Lee
“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.”
Swami Vivekananda
“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
Dale Carnegie
“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”
Jim Rohn
“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”
Ayn Rand
“If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it – teach yourself to be impatient.”
Gurbaksh Chahal
“Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.”
Robert Kiyosaki
“If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!”
T. Harv Eke
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”
Steve Jobs