Life Quotes, Proverbs & Sayings - Page 13



Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
Booker T. Washington

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
Johnny Carson

Life is just a blank slate, what matters most is what you write on it.
Christine Frankland

Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.
B. C. Forbes

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.
Jawaharal Nehru

The mere sense of living is joy enough.
Emily Dickinson

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.
Leo Buscaglia

You’re writing the story of your life one moment at a time.
Doc Childre and Howard Martin

Life is a zoo in a jungle.
Peter De Vries

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
John Homer Miller

Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.
Corita Kent

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Will you look back on life and say, “I wish I had,” or “I’m glad I did”?
Zig Ziglar

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God’s Paradise.
Phillips Brooks

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Charles A Beard

Life’s blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
Norman Vincent Peale

If you are not getting as much from life as you want to, then examine the state of your enthusiasm.
Norman Vincent Peale

The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.
Raymond Charles Barker

Life is easier than you’d think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris

Life is pure flame.
Sir Thomas Browne

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.
Groucho Marx

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
Anais Nin

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
Arthur Rimbaud

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
Henry Miller

Listen, are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?
Mary Oliver

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer.
Jim Carrey

Birth, life, and death — each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.
Toni Morrison

When you’re chewing on life’s gristle
Don’t grumble, give a whistle
And this’ll help things turn out for the best…
And…always look on the bright side of life…
Always look on the light side of life.
Monty Python’s Life of Brian

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.
H. Jackson Brown

Life is a shit sandwich. But if you’ve got enough bread, you don’t taste the shit.
Jonathan Winters

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