Famous Quotes & Sayings

Willie Mays

Yes, I had to learn how to live life outside, but I had so many people help me.

No man ever sailed over exactly the same route that another sailed over before him; every man who starts on the ocean of life arches his sails to an untried breeze.

William Lyon Phelps

I find daily life not always joyous, but always interesting. I have some sad days and nights, but none that are dull. As I advance deeper into the vale of years, I live with constantly increasing gusto and excitement. I am sure it all means something; in the last analysis, I am an optimist because I believe in God. Those who have no faith are quite naturally pessimists and I do not blame them.

William Lyon Phelps

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.

William Lyon Phelps

A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.

William Lyon Phelps

The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

William Lyon Phelps

The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.

William Law

Devotion signifies a life given, or devoted, to God. He therefore is the devout man, who lives no longer to his own will, or the way and spirit of the world, but to the sole will of God, who considers God in everything, who serves God in everything, who makes all the parts of his common life, parts of piety, by doing everything in the name of God, and under such rules as are conformable to His glory.

William Law

As a good Christian should consider every place as holy, because God is there, so he should look upon every part of his life as a matter of holiness, because it is offered unto God. The profession of a clergyman is a holy profession, because it is a ministration in holy things, an attendance at the alter. But worldly business is to be made holy unto the Lord, by being done as a service unto Him, and in conformity to His Divine will.

William J. H. Boetcker

The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn to enjoy the abundant life.

William J. H. Boetcker

Before you can write a check, you must first make out a deposit slip; before you can draw money out of a bank, you must put money into a bank; before you are entitled to a living, you must give the world a life; if you want to make a first-class living, learn to give the world a first-class life.

Virginia Woolf

And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.

Vinoba Bhave

It is only when our life proceeds within bounds and in an accepted, disciplined way, that the mind can be free.

Vinnie Jones

You see, I know change I see change I embody change All we do is change Yeah, I know change We are born to change We sometimes regard it as a metaphor That reflects the way things ought to be In fact change takes time It exceeds expectations It requires both now and then See, although the players change The song remains the same And the truth is... You gotta have the balls to change

Woodrow Wilson

The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.

Woodrow Wilson

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

Saint Augustine

What am I then, my God? What is my nature? A life varied, multifaceted and truly immense.

Saint Augustine

Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good.

Saint Augustine

Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.

Saint Augustine

Love all men, even your enemies; love them, not because they are your brothers, but that they may become your brothers. Thus you will ever burn with fraternal love, both for him who is already your brother and for your enemy, that he may by loving become your brother.

Saint Augustine

We should never use the truth to wound.

Wiz Khalifa

Life is once so do right neglect wrongs.

Winston Churchill

Keep calm and carry on.

Wilma Rudolph

Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.

Wilt Chamberlain

If I were given a change of life, I'd like to see how it would be to live as a mere six-footer.

Wilt Chamberlain

If you have ability in a certain area, why not capitalize on it and improve it and use it?

Wilson Mizner

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.

William Trevor

Only love matters in the bits and pieces of a person's life.

Will Self

Live life and write about life. Of the making of many books there is indeed no end, but there are more than enough books about books.

Will Rogers

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

Will Rogers

Believe in something for another world, but don't be too set on what it is, and then you won't start out that life with a disappontment. Live your life so that whenever you lose you are ahead.

Will Rogers

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

Will Rogers

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.