[ life Quotes ]

Showing search results for Life Quotes - 1126 quotes about Life - Dictionary Quotes

1126 quotes

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
Excellence
George Eliot

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 799 votes

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
Change
George Eliot

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 705 votes

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
Conscience
George Eliot

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 522 votes

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
Privacy
George Eliot

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 713 votes

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
Failure
George Eliot

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 490 votes

What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
Life and Living
George Eliot

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 507 votes

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
Purpose
George Eliot

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 646 votes

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
Futility
T. S. Eliot

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 734 votes

War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.
War
T. S. Eliot

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 682 votes

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
Dreams
Havelock Ellis

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 736 votes

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
Danger
Havelock Ellis

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 771 votes

Pain and death are a part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
Pain
Havelock Ellis

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 653 votes

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.
Friends and Friendship
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 1220 votes

As soon as there is life there is danger.
Danger
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 621 votes

Courtesy Life be not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.
Courtesy
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 706 votes

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Action
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 615 votes

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.
Friends and Friendship
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 660 votes

For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?
Freedom
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 708 votes

Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
Charity
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 648 votes

How much of human life is lost in waiting.
Expectation
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 633 votes

Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.
Exercise
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 669 votes

It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Life and Living
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 575 votes

Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.
Thoughts and Thinking
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 606 votes

Life is a festival only to the wise.
Wisdom
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 386 votes

Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.
Life and Living
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 599 votes

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun