Quotes about life

I love pitting people against each other. My whole life is based on that. It brings out the best in people and the worst in people. If the worst comes out, you don’t want them working for you.

Donald Trump

Some things in life, you don’t get. You gotta go take it… Or you’ll never have’em.

Eric Thomas

Talent and effort, combined with our various backgrounds and life experiences, has always been the lifeblood of our singular American genius.

Michelle Obama

I’ve had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

The best kept secret in America today is that people would rather work hard for something they believe in than live a life of aimless diversion.

John W. Gardner

I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life

Thich Nhat Hanh

Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful – and hence neither good nor bad.

Marcus Aurelius

Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.

Thomas Sowell

I went to sea from the most tender age and have continued in a sea life to this day. Whoever gives himself up to this art wants to know the secrets of Nature here below. It is more than forty years that I have been thus engaged. Wherever any one has sailed, there I have sailed.

Christopher Columbus

He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into the short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.

Samuel Johnson