Quotes About life Lessons

Quotes About life Lessons

"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today."

~James Dean

"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."

~Robert Byrne

"Growth is the only evidence of life."

~John Henry Newman

"True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness."

~Albert Einstein

"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn."

~David Russell

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

"Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality. It is the words that speak boldly of your intentions. And the actions which speak louder than the words. It is making the time when there is none. Coming through time after time after time, year after year after year. Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the power to change the face of things. It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism."

~Abraham Lincoln

"Live a life as a monument to your soul."

~Ayn Rand

"The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man."

~Euripides

"Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it."

~Danny Kaye

"The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love."

~William Wordsworth

"Education is the best provision for the journey to old age."

~Aristotle

"Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections; so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all thy ways."

~Akhenaton

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."

~Aesop-

"The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted thirty years of his life."

~Muhammad Ali

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler."

~Henry David Thoreau

"To be able to look back upon one's life in satisfaction is to live twice."

~Kahlil Gibran

"Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."

~Sir James Mathew Barrie

"We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."

~Joseph Campbell

"If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive..."

~Eleonora Duse

"Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by."

~Carl Sandburg

"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by what you bring to life."

~Undetermined

"Your life is much more important that you can imagine... it is your first treasure."

Maya Angelou

"There is a place that YOU are to fill that no one else can fill -- something YOU are to do that no one else can do."

~Plato

"Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least."

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it."

~Buddha

"Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into."

~Dr. Wayne Dyer

"Of all the creatures on earth, only human beings can change their patterns. Man alone is the architect of his destiny... Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."

~William James

"There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go."

~Richard David Bach

"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about."

~Albert Einstien

"The biggest mistake that people make is life is not making a living at doing what they most enjoy."

~Malcom S. Forbes

Good Quotes About Life

Good Quotes Aabout Life

If all evil were prevented, much good would be absent from the universe

- Aquinas St. Thomas

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
- Aurelius Marcus

America, thou half-brother of the world;
With something good and bad of every land

- Bailey Philip James

A man is only as good as what he loves

- Bellow Saul

I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy

-Benson A.C.

Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.

- Bentley Eric


Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you.

- The Bible

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine

- The Bible

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over, and showing it principally in one spot.

- Billings Josh 1818-1885


He who would do good to another, must do it in minute particulars
General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer.

- Blake William

Hanging is too good for him, said Mr Cruelty.

- Bunyan John

It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph.

- Burke Edmund

People care more about being thought to have good taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

- Butler Samuel

Good to the poor, to kindred dear,
To servants kind, to friendship clear,
To nothing but herself severe.

- Carew Thomas


The word „good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

- Chesterton G.K.

The age of strong belief is over, the good is no longer always very good.

- Coles D.L.

You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart,I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!

- Cromwell Oliver


The best of men cannot suspend their fate:
The good die early, and the bad die late.

- Defoe Daniel


Justice is too good for some people, and not good enough for the rest.

- Douglas Norman

For present joys are more to flesh and blood
Than a dull prospect of a distant good.

- Dryden John

Look round the habitable world! How few
Know their own good; or knowing it, pursue.

- Dryden John

We know the good, we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement.

- Euripides c.

Funny Quotes About Life

Funny Quotes About Life

"It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others"- Anonymous

"Life is just a phase you're going through...you'll get over it" - Anonymous

"Never do anything that you wouldn't want to explain to the paramedics" - Anonymous

"When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time" - Anonymous

"It's frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to ask you the questions" - Anonymous

"If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the very next morning you will have a flat tire" - Anonymous

"The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement" - Anonymous

"An optimist is someone who falls off the Empire State Building, and after 50 floors says, 'So far so good!" - Anonymous

"When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane" - Anonymous

"You can't have everything....where would you put it?" - Anonymous

"Born to be wild - live to outgrow it" - Anonymous

"Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still " - Lou Erickso

Happy Quotes About Life

Happy Quotes About Life

Resolve to keep happy and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

--Helen Keller

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.

--Martha Washington

The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts: and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.

--Montaigne

To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy…is to set our own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

--Thich Nhat Hanh

No matter how much madder it may make you, get out of bed forcing a smile. You may not smile because you are cheerful; but if you will force yourself to smile, you'll end up laughing. You will be cheerful because you smile. Repeated experiments prove that when man assumes the facial expressions of a given mental mood — any given mood — then that mental mood itself will follow.

— Kenneth Goode

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.

— Henri Nouwen

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

--Abraham Lincoln

Happiness is not in our circumstance but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are.

--John B. Sheerin

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

--Charles Langbridge Morgan

The really happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery when on a detour.

-- Unknown

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

— Count Leo Tolstoy

The happiest people don't worry too much about whether life is fair or not, they just get on with it.

 - Andrew Matthews

For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. If you don't enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are that you're not going to be very happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn't going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.

–Andy Rooney

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

-- Christian Nestell Bovee

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis.

--Margaret Bonnano

Happiness is not having what you want. It is wanting what you have.

– Unknown

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

— Albert Camus

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste, that they hurry past it.

 –Kierkegaard

If we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.

--Edith Wharton

Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

--Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Spirit bears witness. Ecstasy and enlightenment, inspiration and intuition are not necessary. Happy is the man who is worthy of these; but woe unto us if we wait for such experiences; woe unto us if we do not perceive that these things are of secondary importance.

-- Karl Barth

One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.

-- Diogenes Laertius, Zeno

You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions by anointing you with the oil of joy.

-- Hebrews 1:9

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

--Agnes Repplier

Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.

--James Freeman Clarke

I think I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

— Booker T. Washington

If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it.

--John Templeton

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

--Buddha

Genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others’ happiness.

–The Dalai Lama

When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.

--C.S. Lewis

Great Quotes About Life

Great Quotes About Life

If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
- Albert Camus

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
- Ralph Waldo

It's not what you do once in a while, it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference.
- Jenny Craig

Let us give something to each person we meet: joy, courage, hope, assurance, or philosophy, wisdom, a vision for the future. Let us always give something.
- Daisaku Ikeda

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
- Elbert Hubbard

Taking action is how you GIVE your gift and live a life of true service to yourself and others. And that doesn't mean that your life's work has to be something that seems grand and noble. The real key to being of service and living your purpose is simply to do what you LOVE to do -- whatever it may be.
- Rebecca Fine

The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at the best, know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
- James Allen

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.
- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
- Amelia Earhart

Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.
- Napoleon Hill

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain

Quotes About Life and Loans

I would also certainly continue to keep loan repayment interest rates as low as possible. And I would spread the financial aid a little less thinly across all income brackets.
Charles Vest

Never expect a loan to a friend to be paid back if you want to keep that friend.
Bryant H. McGill

One of the biggest problems out there that I hear from my friends in the business community is that there's no lending, that it's tough to get a loan today.
Alexi Giannoulias

President Reagan always gave the credit to the American people and American ideals. He treated his job as a valuable temporary loan from the American people, a loan that should be respected and returned with dutiful appreciation.
William L. Jenkins

The man who won't loan money isn't going to have many friends - or need them.
Wilt Chamberlain

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
Walter Lippmann

The Texas Energy Office's Loan Star Program has reduced building energy consumption and taxpayers' energy costs through the efficient operation of public buildings, saving taxpayers more than $172 million through energy efficiency projects.
Rosa DeLauro

The way the credit cards were made in the '80s to be a people's form of capitalism and be able to make it so that you could get a loan that you would have been denied previous, now that's the way stocks are.
Jim Cramer

Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.
Muhammad Yunus

We have lost that which has made us great over the generations, and that is the sense of individual and personal responsibility that we can come up, we can pursue our dreams and our aspirations and we won't be blocked by government regulation, by the inability to get a loan as a small business to make our dreams come true.
Jon Huntsman, Jr.  

Famous Quotes about Life

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian Anderson

The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.
Chinese Proverb

The Best Things in Life are Free.
B.G. DeSylva, Lew Brown, and Ray Henderson

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
John Lennon

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill (my favorite)

Live dangerously and you live right.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.
Lillian Dickson

A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.
Chin Ning Chu

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance, and even our very existence depends on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to our lives.
Albert Einstein

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E. E. Cummings

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain


Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha