Lives Quotes - page 3

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives. (William Glasser)
The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.
John Updike
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.
Harry S. Truman
There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens.
Martin Van Buren
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
Robert A. Heinlein
Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.
William James
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
Henry David Thoreau
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
Herbert Spencer
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
Thomas Carlyle
Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.
Gene Roddenberry
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
Joseph Addison
Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness.
Helen Hayes
Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
Colette
A good book should leave you.... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.
William Styron
Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.
Katherine Mansfield
Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.
Alex Haley
Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
Ray Kurzweil
Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
Oscar Wilde
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything. (Oscar Wilde)
The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
Anthony Trollope
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
Thomas Mann
Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.
Steven Pressfield
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
Anthony Robbins