Quotes About Life

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life.

People teach their dogs to sit; it's a trick. I've been sitting my whole life, and a dog has never looked at me as though he thought I was tricky.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

I bear a charmed life.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.