Quotes about life

We have laid the foundation for a better life. Things that were unimaginable a few years ago have become everyday reality. I belong to the generation of leaders for whom the achievement of democracy was the defining challenge.

Nelson Mandela

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

Thomas Carlyle

I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life, on a re-birth as something not one’s self.

W. B. Yeats

You’ll have to learn that public life takes a lot of sweat; but it doesn’t need to worry you. You won’t always be right, but you mustn’t suffer from being wrong. That’s what kills people like us.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Allow me to offer a simple definition of wisdom. Wisdom is looking at life from God’s point of view.

Chuck Swindoll

Just being ourselves is the biggest fear of humans. We have learned to live our life trying to satisfy other people’s demands. We have learned to live by other people’s points of view because of the fear of not being accepted and of not being good enough for someone else.

Don Miguel Ruiz

Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I always try to write a song to work things out with myself and I want to do it with a little punchline at the end, because I never want to remember anything bad in my life.

Amy Winehouse

You can make up your mind to do one of two things: You can have a good time in life, or you can have a successful life, but you can’t have both. You have got to make up your mind at the start which of the two you are going to have.

Charles M. Schwab

You should invest like a Catholic marries: for life.

Warren Buffett