Great Life quotes

Sometimes the majority only means that all the fools are on the same side.
137 - Unknown

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
151 - Albert Einstein

The lips know only shallow tunes. The heart is where great symphonies are born.
150 - Calvin Miller

You have to take risks," he said. "We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
149 - Paulo Coehlo

[My mother] said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
148 - Maya Angelou

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
143 - Unknown

The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
142 - William James

A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.
51 - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The World is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything.
138 - Albert Einstein

Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you're alive, it isn't.
154 - Richard Bach

Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less.
136 - Ken Blanchard

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
135 - Ralph Waldo Emerson

They can not take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.
133 - Mahatma Gandhi

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
132 - Eleanor Roosevelt

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
131 - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
130 - Vernon Law

Someone once asked me "why do you always insist on taking the hard road?" and I replied "why do you assume I see two roads"?
139 - Unknown

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
270 - Vince Lombardi

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'
319 - Sydney Harris

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
318 - Richard L. Evans

Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
317 - Joshua J. Marine

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
314 - George Bernard Shaw

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
313 - Doug Larson

There are always those who think they know what is your responsibility better than you do.
290 - Ralph Waldo Emerson

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
152 - Abraham Lincoln

People know the cost of everything but the value of nothing.
287 - Oscar Wilde

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.
153 - Alexander Woolcott

Life is too important to take seriously.
304 - Unknown

You wouldn't worry so much about what people really thought of you if you knew just how seldom they actually do.
227 - Unknown

Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted.
159 - Eleanor Roosevelt

The best way to predict your future is to create it.
157 - Unknown

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
156 - Robert Frost

Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
155 - Braveheart

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent--that is to triumph over old age.
320 - Thomas Bailey Aldrich

It is easier to fight for ones principles than to live up to them.
289 - Alfred Alder