Famous Quotes & Sayings

Make your life a mission - not an intermission.

Booker T. Washington

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

William Penn

The truest end of life is to know that life never ends.

These are habitats that are similar to the types of places that we think life could have originated in and possibility still survive in.

Eric Hoffer

An easygoing person is probably more accessible to the realization of eternity--the endless flow of life and death--than one who takes his prospects and duties overseriously. It is the overserious who are truly frivolous.

Eric Hoffer

To lose one's life is but to lose the present; and, clearly, to lose a defiled, worthless present is not to lose much.

Eric Hoffer

It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.

Mortimer Adler

The only standard we have for judging all of our social, economic, and political institutions and arrangements as just or unjust, as good or bad, as better or worse, derives from our conception of the good life for man on earth, and from our conviction that, given certain external conditions, it is possible for men to make good lives for themselves by their own efforts.

Mortimer Adler

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.

Philip Sidney

They love indeed who quake to say they love.

Philip Sidney

My true-love hath my heart, and I have his, By just exchange, one for the other given; I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss, There never was a better bargain driven.

Philip Roth

How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard.

Philip James Bailey

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

Philip James Bailey

Love spends his all, and still hath store.

Philip James Bailey

I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.

Philip James Bailey

Could I love less, I should be happier now.

Philip James Bailey

Life hath more awe than death.

Philip James Bailey

Life's but a means unto an end, that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God.

Philip James Bailey

Life is as serious a thing as death.

Philip James Bailey

It matters not how long we live but how.

Petrarch

Books never pall on me. They discourse with us, they take counsel with us, and are united to us by a certain living chatty familiarity. And not only does each book inspire the sense that it belongs to its readers, but it also suggests the name of others, and one begets the desire of the other.

Pharrell Williams

Life is a carousel. It goes up and down. All U gotta do is just stay on.

Peter De Vries

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

Peter Drucker

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

Paulo Coelho

Life is the train and not the station.

Paulo Coelho

Do not try to explain feelings. Live everything intensely and treasure what you feel as a gift from God.

Paulo Coelho

we’re allowed to make a lot of mistakes in our lives, except the mistake that destroy us

Paulo Coelho

Everything which is done in the present, affects the future by consequence, and the past by redemption.

Paulo Coelho

Life is like Twitter: nobody wants to sign off.

Paulo Coelho

And with the passing years, what had once seemed like a miracle or the luckiest of chances and which he had always promised himself he would never become enslaved by, has gradually become his sole reason to go on living.

Paulo Coelho

Being afraid of having an endoscopy (if you're a man) and giving birth (if you're a woman).

Paulo Coelho

Being equally convinced that aggression and rudeness are synonymous with having a "powerful personality."