Quotes about life

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your hear that every day is the best day of the year.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Graduates, your values matter. They are your north star. And work takes on new meaning when you feel you’re pointed in the right direction. Otherwise, it’s just a job. And life is too short for that.

Tim Cook

One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts.

Benjamin Franklin

The only thing stopping you is fear, and the only thing that will get you past it is courage. What you do with your life isn’t up to your parents, your boss, or your spouse. It’s up to you and you alone.

Steve Pavlina

Life, on this Earth may be likened to a great Kaleidoscope before which the scenes and facts and material substances are ever shifting and changing and all any man can do is to take these facts and substances and re-arrange them in new combinations.

Napoleon Hill

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.

William Arthur Ward

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

Martin Luther King Jr.

My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.

Rose Kennedy

You ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.

Anton Chekhov

A great work of art demands a great thought or a thought of beauty adequately expressed. – Neither in art nor literature more than in life can an ordinary thought be made interesting because well-dressed.

Margaret Fuller