Quotes about life

I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.

Billie Jean King

To ride a bicycle properly is very like a love affair – chiefly it is a matter of faith. Believe you do it, and the thing is done; doubt, and, for the life of you, you cannot.

H. G. Wells

Assume life will be really tough, and then ask if you can handle it. If the answer is yes, you’ve won.

Charlie Munger

Happiness does not exclude sadness – If a person responds to life, he’s sometimes happy and sometimes sad. What matters is he responds.

Erich Fromm

I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman’s inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman’s fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men.

Jane Austen

I have a very good life – I’m lucky enough not to be deprived.

Meryl Streep

Happiness is gained by complying with the duties of whatever condition of life one is in, and you must constrain yourself to rise to that exalted station in which destiny has placed you.

Giacomo Casanova

Real progress cannot be measured by money alone. We must ensure that economic growth contributes to our quality of life, rather than degrading it.

Tony Blair

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the government machine.

Henry David Thoreau