Quotes about life

Let me tell you something. For the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country, because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback.

Michelle Obama

As a nation, we must choose between the sanctity of life ethic and the quality of life ethic. I have no trouble identifying the answer our nation has always given to this basic question, and the answer that I hope and pray it will give in the future.

Ronald Reagan

If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.

Leo Tolstoy

For it has been said, all that a man hath will he give for his life; and while all contribute of their substance the soldier puts his life at stake, and often yields it up in his country’s cause. The highest merit, then is due to the soldier.

Abraham Lincoln

I can tell you this: Everything in my life that I am happy about it is the product of a huge mistake.

James Altucher

The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

George Bernard Shaw

Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’

Isaac Asimov

We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fear.

Nelson Mandela

I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything.

Chuck Palahniuk

The sweetest path of life leads through the avenues of learning, and whoever can open up the way for another, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind.

David Hume