Quotes
and Sayings About Life
Man
is not made to understand life, but to live it.
- George Santayana
Life
is not a matter of holding good cards, but playing a
poor hand well.
- Robert Lewis Stevenson
The
life of action is nobler than the life of thought.
- Dinah Maria Craik
The
acts of this life are the destiny of the next.
- Eastern Proverb
The
secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for
his opportunity when it comes.
- Earl of Beaconsfield
Life
has got to be lived - that's all there is to it.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
All
life is a chance. So take it! The person who goes furthest
is the one who is willing to do and dare.
- Dale Carnegie
What
shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!
- Edmund Burke
The
web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
- William Shakespeare
Life,
like some cities, is full of blind alleys, leading nowhere;
the great art is to keep out of them.
- Bovee
Knowledge,
love, power - there is complete life.
- Amiel
Life
is a fragment, a moment between two eternities, influenced
by all that has preceded, and to influence all that
follows.
- William Channing
Man's
life is a progress, not a station.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life
is a light before the wind.
- Japanese Proverb
Life
is like the moon; now dark, now full.
Polish Proverb
Life
passes through us; we do not possess it.
- Amiel
We
sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern
which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving
when it comes up in the morning.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Dost
thou love life, then do not squander time, for that
is the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
He
most lives who thinks the most, feels the noblest, acts
the best.
- Philip James Bailey
In
a life which has meaning in it, past and future sustain
each other.
- Charles Henry Parkhurst
Life
is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of
little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small
obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve
the heart, and secure comfort.
- Sir H. Davy
We
are either progressing or retrograding all the while;
there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this
life.
- James Freeman Clarke
