Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
Life Quotes
500+ Sourced quotes
Source
Report...
Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
Woodrow Wilson
Source
Report...
My darling girl, Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh. All the same, or precisely for this reason, it is happiness and comfort for us men to have a precious sweetheart - and I have the most precious, the dearest and best of all!
Martin Bormann
Source
Report...
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity, and stumble from defeat to defeat.
Ryszard Kapuściński
Source
Report...
Do not take life too seriously – you will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
Source
Report...
Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity do not easily resume life.
George Steiner
Source
Report...
"Forbear to ask what tomorrow may bring" … If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
Morris West
Source
Report...
Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.
Augusto Roa Bastos
Source
Report...
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Source
Report...
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Source
Report...
Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.
Joseph Brodsky
Source
Report...
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening,
the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husks.
George MacDonald
Source
Report...
May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best – out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.
May Sarton
Source
Report...
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Zig Ziglar
Source
Report...
Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
Mary McLeod Bethune
Source
Report...
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful it would not be worth knowing, and life would not be worth living.
Henri Poincaré
Source
Report...
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality. Though different traditions may emphasize different aspects, it is only the interplay of these antithetic forces and the struggle for their synthesis that constitute the life, usefulness, and supreme value of mathematical science.
Richard Courant
Source
Report...
Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
Jack London
Source
Report...
The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.
John C. Calhoun
Source
Report...
What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?
The world would split open.
Muriel Rukeyser
Source
Report...
Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.
George Mikes
Source
Report...
The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.
James Otis
Source
Report...
Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.
Allan Bloom
Source
Report...
There must be more to life than having everything!
Maurice Sendak
Source
Report...
I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.
Mary Cassatt
Source
Report...
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm; it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
George Sand
1
...
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
...
20
Quote of the day
Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
Gloria Steinem
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes