Famous Quotes, about Life

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When the water reaches the upper level follow the rats.
- Claude A. Swanson

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
- Max Lucado

Live your life from your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls.
- Melody Beattie

Never be haughty to the humble never be humble to the haughty.
- Jefferson Davis

No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.
- Mary Kay Ash

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.
- James A. Froude

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde

We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.
- Laertius Diogenes

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper they lose their worth.
- Chuck Norris

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
- Charles Dickens

Knowledge is power and enthusiasm pulls the switch.
- Steve Droke

If you want to make peace you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
- Moshe Dayan

Life is 10% what you make it, and 90% how you take it.
- Irving Berlin

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
- Louis Nizer

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
- Peter Marshall

We are each of us angels with only one wing and we can only fly by embracing one another.
- Luciano De Crescenzo

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard

Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.
- Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson

Rest satisfied with doing well and leave others to talk of you as they please.
- Pythagoras

The less their ability the more their conceit.
- Ahad HaAm

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
- Lao-Tzu

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
- Sophia Loren

A bully is not reasonable -- he is persuaded only by threats.
- Marie De France

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body -- the two are ever united.
- Humboldt

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
- Watterson Lowe

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction both are transformed.
- Carl Jung

Kindness is more important than wisdom and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
- Theodore Isaac Rubin

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
- James Allen

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
- Cyril Connolly

It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers.
- James Grover Thurber

There's nobody you would rather beat than your good friend.
- Charles Barkley

Correction does much but encouragement does more.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.
- Pico Iyer

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.
- Bruce Lee

Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful.
- Niccolo Machiavelli

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.
- Rose Lane

Seeing is deceiving. It's eating that's believing.
- James Thurber

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all of these.
- George Washington Carver

We are what our thoughts have made us -- so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live -- they travel far.
- Swami Vivekananda

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
- Napoleon Hill

Remember to keep your feet on the ground or you will fall over.
- William Dawson

Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life.
- Lillian Ross