1,004 private quotes tagged life

“If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.”— Tallulah Bankhead

“Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.”— Brooke Shields

“It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life.”— Jimi Hendrix

“It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.”— Jimi Hendrix

“Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.”— Wayne Dyer

“A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.”— Denis Waitley

“Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.”— William Wordsworth

“The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.”— Gustave Flaubert

“Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.”— Jose Ortega y Gasset

“Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.”— Charles Lindbergh

“The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'”— Billy Graham

“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.”— Erma Bombeck

“Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.”— Mother Teresa

“God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.”— Swami Vivekananda

“It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.”— Cesar Chavez

“For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”— Jesus Christ

“I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.”— Martin Lawrence

“If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples even though some of them still look down on me.”— Saint Patrick

“God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.”— Bede Griffiths

“If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.”— Arthur Ashe

“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.”— Robert A. Heinlein

“A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.”— Hugh Sidey

“I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.”— David Rockefeller

“Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.”— Zig Ziglar

“A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.”— Niccolo Machiavelli