Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

A merry heart goes all the way, - A sad one tires inan hour.

Carl Jung

It is only our deeds that reveal who we are.

Abraham Lincoln

I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

Booker T. Washington

The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.

Confucius

Men do not stumble over mountains, but over mole hills.

Marian Wright Edelman

Service is what life is all about.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Nothing important was ever achieved without someone taking a chance.

Jackie Kennedy

Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

Jesse Jackson

A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

Beck

Live the principles and the values. Almost nobody in America is living them. Learn the truth. Live the life of our founders. Be a decent, righteous, forthright honest man or woman.

B. R. Ambedkar

Man is mortal. Everyone has to die some day or the other. But one must resolve to lay down one's life in enriching the noble ideals of self-respect and in bettering one's human life. We are not slaves. Nothing is more disgraceful for a brave man than to live life devoid of self-respect.

B. R. Ambedkar

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics.

David Brooks

Live life as a series of revelations

Bruno Heller

Italy is still very much the same place it was 2,000 years ago. Italians are still the same .. there's a sense of beauty and a sense of dignity and a sense of living life to the full that infects everyone.

Charlotte Bronte

The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life of thought, and that of reality.

Alanis Morissette

With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I'm teeming with the drive to write.

Alan Rickman

I'm still living the life where you get home and open the fridge and there's half a pot of yogurt and a half a can of flat Coca-Cola.

Ernest Hemingway

Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?