Life Quotes

Life is but a dream or play. We play different roles; we lead different lives. No
matter how long one's life is, the only thing that matters is how we play our role
and how we control our destiny. Each and everyone of us has a story - one that is
unique and only we ourselves understand it. Here are some quotes about life to
share. Do you have one to share with others too? Email me your quote and the
source from where the quote was taken from. Enjoy these quotes!

"Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to
have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they
want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the
reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you
need to do, in order to have what you want." - Margaret Young

"Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It
brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health;
acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days
of joy, but not peace or happiness." - Henrik Ibsen

"I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than be a success
at something I hate." - George Burns

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." - Milton Berle

"If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?" - Joe Namath

"Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will
never begin" - Grace Hansen

"Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much
matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life.
If you haven't had that, what have you had?" - Henry James

"When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember
that three of his fingers are pointing at himself." - Anonymous

"To err is human, to forgive, divine." - Alexander Pope

"When a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until
we forgive." - Alan Paton

"Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring
to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the
most interesting game in the world - making the most of one's
best." - Harry Emerson Fosdick

"Today is the first day of the rest of your life." - Charles Dederich

"The world will not change until we do." - Jim Wallis

"Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recipient,
at least it benefits the bestower." - S.H. Simmons

"He who limps still walks." - Stanislaw Lec

"Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally.
Make it the object of pursuit and it leads us on a wild-goose
chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object and very
possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without
dreaming of it." - Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Sometimes things can go right only by first going very wrong"
- Edward Tenner

"The person who upsets you the most is your best teacher
because they bring you face to face with who you are.
- Lynn Andrews

"You really never lose until you stop trying" - Mike Ditka

"Some people like me. Some people don't. You can never
get everyone to like you, so why knock yourself out
trying" - Claudette Colbert

"There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day"
- Alexander Woollcott

"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live
your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice"
- Cherokee Expression

"A good leader takes a little more than his share of
the blame, a little less than his share of the credit"
- Arnold Glasow

"A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats
little men" - Thomas Carlyle

"Anyone who angers you conquers you" - Sister Kenny's mother

"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes"
- Oscar Wilde

"If we had no faults, we would not take so much pleasure
in noting those of others" - Francoise de La Rochfoucauld

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