Famous Sayings about Life

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When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.
Leo Buscaglia

Our talents are the gift that God gives to us...What we make of our talents is our gift back to God.
Lou Holtz

Never tell your problems to anyone...20 don!t care and the other "0 are glad you have them.
John F. Kennedy

Our problems are man#made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is
beyond human beings.
Martin Luther King

$ove is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
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God didn!t promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, sun without rain, but %e did promise
strength for the day, comfort for the tears, and light for the way.
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Famous Sayings about Lo$e
Martin Luther King% Jr.

$ove is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
&eorge Sand

&here is only one happiness in life # to love and to be loved.
Helen Keller

&he best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. &hey must be felt with the
heart.
Albert 'instein

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Bette (a$is

'leasure of love lasts but a moment, 'ain of love lasts a lifetime.
Julie Andre!s

(ll love shifts and changes. ) don!t know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
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Famous Sayings about )hanges
*obert Frost

*ost of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
S#anish "ro$erb

( wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.
Maria *obinson

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
"ublilius Syrus

( rolling stone can gather no moss.
Keri *ussell

+ometimes it!s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.
Henri Bergson

&o e,ist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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Famous Sayings about Friendshi#
Aristotle
Without friends no one would choose to live.
*ussian "ro$erb
( mere friend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.
*al#h +aldo 'merson
&he only way to have a friend is to be one.
'uri#ides
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
Albert )amus
-on!t walk in front of me, ) may not follow. -on!t walk behind me, ) may not lead. Walk beside me, and /ust
be my friend.
Abraham Lincoln
&he better part of one!s life consists of his friendshi
Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
Frank Outlaw
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
nd then is heard no more! it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
"ignifying nothing.
William "hakespeare
#While contemplating the ob$ects of the senses, a person de%elops attachment for them. From "uch attachment comes
Lust, then anger, illusion, bewilderment of memory and loss of intelligence, and then one falls down into the material cycle
of birth and death# - -&haga%ad 'ita

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"uccess seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others ha%e let go.
William Feather
Life is )*+ what happens to you and ,*+ how you respond to it.
Lou -olt.
Our greatest glory is not in ne%er failing, but in rising up e%ery time we fail.
/alph Waldo 0merson
"uccess is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston (hurchill
1obody gets to li%e life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.
nn Landers
Fall se%en times, stand up eight.
2apanese 3ro%erb
For true success ask yourself these four 4uestions! Why5 Why not5 Why not me5 Why not
now5
2ames llen
6our Life is your message to the world. 7ake it 8nspiring.
Lorrin L Lee
8f your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
2onathan Winters
"uccess is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
/obert (ollier
/emember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
9ale (arnegie
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter &agehot
"ome people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
uthor :nknown
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die ha%ing left undone.
3ablo 3icasso
The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too
low and we reach it.
7ichelangelo
The word impossible is not in my dictionary.
1apoleon &onaparte
"uccess is simply a matter of luck. sk any failure.
0arl 1ightingale
6ou always pass failure on the way to success.
7ickey /ooney
6ou must be on top of change or change will be on top of you.
7ark ;ictor -ansen
0mpty pockets ne%er held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
1orman ;incent 3eale
"uccess is ,,+ failure.
"oichiro -onda
To be successful, you ha%e to ha%e your heart in your business and your business in your heart.
Thomas Watson
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.
Tommy Lasorda
The 4uestion isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me5
yn /and
There are so many ways to fail but only one way to succeed; 10;0/ '8;0 :3<
2ohni 3angalila
determined person doesn't find it hard to succeed; they find it hard to stop trying.
llen "teble
"uccess is a personal standard = reaching for the highest that is in us = becoming all that we
can be.
>ig >iglar
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
/obert ?iyosaki
8t was a high counsel that 8 once heard gi%en to a young person, #lways do what you are afraid
to do.#
/alph Waldo 0merson
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
ristotle Onassis
6ou ha%e abilities within you beyond your wildest dreams.
-emal /adia
Winners ne%er 4uit and 4uitters ne%er win.
;ince Lombardi
voi! la"suits beyon! all things# they pervert your conscience$ impair your health$ an! !issipate
your property."- - 2ean de la &ruy@re
"%he court is like a palace of marble# it&s compose! of people very har! an! very polishe!." -
- 2ean de la &ruy@re
" 'ury too often has at least one member more rea!y to hang the panel than to hang the
traitor." - - braham Lincoln
"( sai! there "as a society of men among us$ bre! up from their youth in the art of proving by
"or!s multiplie! for the purpose$ that "hite is black$ an! black is "hite$ accor!ing as they are
pai!. %o this society all the rest of the people are as slaves." - -
2onathan "wift
"l"ays bear this in min!) *verything is in +o!&s han!s$ an! you are ,is tool to be use! by ,im
as ,e pleases. %ry to grasp the significance of &all is ,is&. an! you "ill imme!iately feel free from
all bur!ens. What "ill be the result of your surren!er to ,im- .one "ill seem alien$ all "ill be
your very o"n Self." - - nandamayi 7a
We make a living by "hat "e get$ "e make a life by "hat "e give.- - "ir Winston (hurchill
*!ucation is an ornament in prosperity an! a refuge in a!versity.- - ristotle
"Reputation is "hat other people kno" about you. ,onour is "hat you kno" about yourself." -
- Lois 7c7aster &u$old
"Dignity consists not in possessing honors$ but in the consciousness that "e !eserve them. " =
= ristotle
"%he men that *veryone a!mire most e/travagantly are the most !aring liars# the men they
!etest most violently are those "ho try to tell them the truth. - - -. L. 7encken A)BB* = ),CDE
"Common looking people are the best in the "orl!) that is the reason the 0or! makes so many
of them." -=braham Lincoln
"ll progress has resulte! from people "ho took unpopular positions." --dlai "te%enson
"(f a free society cannot help the many "ho are poor$ it cannot save the fe" "ho are rich."
--2ohn F. ?ennedy
Free!om of thought an! the right to private 'u!gment$ in matters of conscience$ !riven from
every corner of the earth$ !irect their course to this happy country as their last asylum. 0et us
cherish the noble guests$ an! shelter them un!er the "ings of universal toleration. --"amuel
dams
"1ou "ill never be happy if you continue to search for "hat happiness consists of. 1ou "ill never
live if you are looking for the meaning of life." --lbert (amus
"!versity is solitary$ "hile prosperity !"ells in a cro"!." --7arguerite of ;alois
"With reasonable men$ ( "ill reason# "ith humane men ( "ill plea!# but to tyrants ( "ill give no
2uarter$ nor "aste arguments "here they "ill certainly be lost." --William Lloyd 'arrison
"What is conservatism- (s it not a!herence to the ol! an! trie!$ against the ne" an! untrie!- "
--braham Lincoln
".o one can make you feel inferior "ithout your consent." --0leanor /oose%elt
"3ay "e never confuse honest !issent "ith !isloyal subversion." --9wight 9. 0isenhower
"(t is al"ays the simple that pro!uces the marvelous."--melia &arr
".o one can buil! his security upon the nobleness of another person." --Willa (ather
"+o! is really only another artist. ,e invente! the giraffe$ the elephant$ an! the cat. ,e has no
real style. ,e 'ust keeps on trying other things." --3ablo 3icasso
"Sho" me a character "hose life arouses my curiosity$ an! my flesh begins cra"ling "ith
suspense." --Fawn 7. &rodie
"4ne half of the "orl! cannot un!erstan! the pleasures of the other." --2ane usten
"5olitics "ill eventually be replace! by imagery. %he politician "ill be only too happy to ab!icate
in favor of his image$ because the image "ill be much more po"erful than he coul! ever be."
--7arshall 7cLuha
Life's a bitch and then you die.
1as A1asir 2onesE
Life's a &itch, from merican rapper's debut album 8llmatic.
The &est Things in Life are Free.
&.'. 9e"yl%a, Lew &rown, and /ay -enderson
"ong from the 7usical ''ood 1ews'.
?eep lo%e in your heart. life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The
consciousness of lo%ing and being lo%ed brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else
can bring.
Oscar Wilde
Life without lo%e is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
?ahlil 'ibran
Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.
2. 9. "alinger
The (atcher in the /ye, spoken by 7r. "pencer.
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
nd then is heard no more! it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
"ignifying nothing.
William "hakespeare
7acbeth, C. C
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
(hristopher 7orley
Thunder on the Left
To li%e is so startling it lea%es little time for anything else.
0mily 9ickinson
What is this life if, full of care,
We ha%e no time to stand and stare5
W. -. 9a%ies
Leisure
1othing in life is to be feared. 8t is only to be understood.
7arie (urie
7y momma always said life was like a boF of chocolatesGyou ne%er know what you're gonna
get.
Forrest 'ump
"poken by Tom -anks in mo%ie Forrest 'ump
2ust li%ing is not enough. One must ha%e sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
-ans (hristian ndersen
When you're chewing on life's gristle
9on't grumble, gi%e a whistle
nd this'll help things turn out for the best...
nd...always look on the bright side of life...
lways look on the light side of life.
7onty 3ython's Life of &rian
The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.
(hinese 3ro%erb
8n the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
(harlie &rown
Life is a seFually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
/. 9. Laing
-ere's to a long life and a merry one
4uick death and an easy one
pretty girl and an honest one
cold beer and another one<
8rish "aying
The mass of men lead li%es of 4uiet desperation.
-enry 9a%id Thoreau
Walden
Life is what happens to you
While you're busy making other plans.
2ohn Lennon
&eautiful &oy
Life is as tedious as a twice=told tale
;eFing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
William "hakespeare
?ing 2ohn, H. I
Life is di%ided into the horrible and the miserable.
Woody llen
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering = and it's all o%er much too soon.
Woody llen
The goal of life is li%ing in agreement with nature.
>eno
From 9iogenes Laertius, Li%es of 0minent 3hilosophers
The secret of a good life is to ha%e the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of %alues.
1orman Thomas
Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
Oli%er Wendell -olmes
The 3oet at the &reakfast=Table
Life is far too important a thing e%er to talk seriously about.
Oscar Wilde
Lady Windermere's Fan, ct 8
Life is a .oo in a $ungle.
3eter 9e ;ries
Life isn't fair. 8t's $ust fairer than death, that's all.
William 'oldman
The 3rincess &ride
-ow far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the
aged, sympathetic with the stri%ing and tolerant of the weak and strong. &ecause someday in
life you will ha%e been all of these.
'eorge Washington (ar%er
8 hope life isn't a big $oke, because 8 don't get it.
2ack -andey
6ou fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into
your gra%e.
Juentin (risp
Life has taught us that lo%e does not consist of ga.ing at each other, but in looking together in
the same direction.
ntoine de "aint=0Fupery
Life is a great big can%as, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
9anny ?aye
Where there is lo%e there is life.
8ndira 'andhi
We must learn to li%e together as brothers or perish together as fools.
7artin Luther ?ing, 2r.
Li%e dangerously and you li%e right.
2ohann Wolfgang %on 'oethe
8f you li%e to be a hundred, 8 want to li%e to be a hundred minus one day, so 8 ne%er ha%e to li%e
without you.
. . 7ilne
Winnie the 3ooh
The first half of our li%es is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
(larence ". 9arrow
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it ali%e.
/obert -einlein
Life is $ust a bowl of pits.
/odney 9angerfield
Life is $ust one damned thing after another.
0lbert -ubbard
Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.
Fran Lebowit.
Life is something that e%eryone should try at least once.
-enry 2. Tillman
Life is pleasant. 9eath is peaceful. 8t's the transition that's troublesome.
8saac simo%
Life is a long lesson in humility.
2ames 7. &arrie
We make a li%ing by what we get, we make a life by what we gi%e.
Winston (hurchill
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Truman (apote
Life is $ust a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.
Wally 'Famous' mos
The greatest happiness of life is the con%iction that we are lo%ed == lo%ed for oursel%es, or
rather, lo%ed in spite of oursel%es.
;ictor -ugo
8 ha%e a simple philosophy! Fill what's empty. 0mpty what's full. "cratch where it itches.
lice /oose%elt Longworth
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
/obert &yrne
Life is like a coin. 6ou can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.
Lillian 9ickson
There is no wealth but life.
2ohn /uskin
The happiest moments of my life ha%e been the few which 8 ha%e passed at home in the bosom
of my family.
Thomas 2efferson
Life is the sum of all your choices.
lbert (amus
8 ha%e measured out my life with coffee spoons.
T.". 0liot
The Lo%e "ong of 2. lfred 3rufrock
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
"amuel &utler
ny idiot can face a crisis = it's day to day li%ing that wears you out.
nton (hekho%
Life is an incurable disease.
braham (owley
&e glad of life because it gi%es you the chance to lo%e and to work and to play and to look up at
the stars.
-enry ;an 9yke
The aim of life is to li%e, and to li%e means to be aware, $oyously, drunkenly, serenely, di%inely
aware.
-enry 7iller
Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.
7artin -. Fischer
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping
for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
lbert (amus
8f in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but e%eryone will
profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.
Thich 1hat -anh
To succeed in life, you need three things! a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.
/eba 7c0ntire
Life is like a ten=speed bicycle. 7ost of us ha%e gears we ne%er use.
(harles "chul.
Life is nothing without friendship.
7arcus Tullius (icero
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
"eneca
0%erything has been figured out, eFcept how to li%e.
2ean=3aul "artre
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
Thomas (arlyle
Life is the flower for which lo%e is the honey.
;ictor -ugo
'od asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. 6ou must take it. The only
4uestion is how.
-enry Ward &eecher
8n three words 8 can sum up e%erything 8'%e learned about life. 8t goes on.
/obert Frost
9uring my lifetime 8 ha%e dedicated myself to this struggle of the frican people, 8 ha%e fought
against white domination, and 8 ha%e fought against black domination. 8 ha%e cherished the
ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons li%e together in harmony and with
e4ual opportunities. 8t is an ideal which 8 hope to li%e for and to achie%e. &ut if it needs be it is
an ideal for which 8 am prepared to die.
1elson 7andela
lways do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
7ark Twain
&lessed are those who can gi%e without remembering and take without forgetting.
0li.abeth &ibesco
&egin doing what you want to do now. We are not li%ing in eternity. We ha%e only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.
7arie &eynon /ay
8t is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
2.?. /owling
8f you want to be happy, be.
Leo Tolstoy
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed
door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
-elen ?eller
thousand words will not lea%e so deep an impression as one deed.
-enrik 8bsen
The future belongs to those who belie%e in the beauty of their dreams.
0leanor /oose%elt
6esterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. nd Today5 Today is a gift. That's why we call it the
present.
&abatunde Olatun$i
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde
9on't let what you can't do stop you from doing what you can do.
2ohn Wooden
Our greatest glory is not in ne%er falling, but in rising e%ery time we fall.
(onfucius
8f we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
&uddha
To li%e is the rarest thing in the world. 7ost people eFist, that is all.
Oscar Wilde
The only man who ne%er makes a mistake is the man who ne%er does anything.
Theodore /oose%elt
We must become the change we want to see.
7ahatma 'andhi
8 shall pass through this life but once. ny good therefore that 8 can do, or any kindness 8 can
show, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it. For 8 shall ne%er pass this way again.
0tienne de 'rellet
8magination is more important than knowledge. ?nowledge is limited. 8magination encircles the
world.
lbert 0instein
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he
stands at times of challenge and contro%ersy.
7artin Luther ?ing 2r.
The 4uestion isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
yn /and
6our life is your message to the world. 7ake it inspiring.
Lorrin L. Lee
'ratitude is not only the greatest of %irtues, but the parent of all the others.
(icero
8 ha%e not failed. 8'%e $ust found )*,*** ways that won't work.
Thomas l%a 0dison
1e%er tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon.
uthor :nknown
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you ha%e to do.
0pictetus
1e%er be afraid to try, remember...
mateurs built the ark.
3rofessionals built the Titanic.
uthor :nknown
8f you are going through hell, keep going.
Winston (hurchill
First ask yourself! What is the worst that can happen5 Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed
to impro%e on the worst.
9ale (arnegie
0%erything is okay in the end, if it's not ok, then it's not the end.
uthor :nknown
8f you can imagine it, you can create it. 8f you dream it, you can become it.
William rthur Ward
6ou see things; and you say, #Why5# &ut 8 dream things that ne%er were; and 8 say, #Why not5#
'eorge &ernard "haw
6ou can ne%er cross the ocean unless you ha%e the courage to lose sight of the shore.
(hristopher (olumbus
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
-enry Ford
1e%er regret. 8f it's good, it's wonderful. 8f it's bad, it's eFperience.
;ictoria -olt
This abo%e all! to thine own self be true.
William "hakespeare