life quotes

“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. ”

— Winston Churchill

“In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might. ”

— Winston Churchill

“In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet. ”

— Winston Churchill

“Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

“The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence. ”

— Norman Vincent Peale

“If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God.”

— Arthur Young

“All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.”

— Walt Disney

“I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.”

“The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.”

“The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.”

“In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.”

“We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.”

— Amelia Earhart

“Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.”

“Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.”

“To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.”

“Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.”

— Antoine de Saint Exupery

“Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.”

— Antoine de Saint Exupery

“The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.”

— Antoine de Saint Exupery

“If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.”

— Sigmund Freud

“We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.”

— Sigmund Freud

“We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.”

— Sigmund Freud

“Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.”

— Dale Carnegie

“Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.”

— Dale Carnegie

“Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.”

— Dale Carnegie

“Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.”

— Dale Carnegie