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Life Quotes

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

Carl Sandburg

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

Henry David Thoreau

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

William James

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

Jean Ingelow

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Joseph Campbell

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

Henry Ward Beecher

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

Jackie Robinson

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Benjamin Franklin

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.

Elizabeth Gaskell

A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.

Donald Trump

A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.

Alfred Hitchcock

A lot of people give up just before they're about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one.

Chuck Norris

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

Henry David Thoreau

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

James Allen

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Charles Darwin

A man who risks his life in shooting big game in order to secure good specimens for natural history collections, or to rid a district of a man-eater or other dangerous neighbor, is a sportsman in the true sense.

Robert Baden-Powell

A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.

John Foster Dulles

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.

John F. Kennedy

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.

Robert Frost

A reputation takes years and years and years to build, and it takes one press of a button to ruin it. Don't let that happen to you. You've done so much work; you've put in so much effort. Don't let one moment ruin your entire life because you wanted to be funny or you were mad or because you had a mood.

J. J. Watt