Top 100 Life Demands Quotes
#1. Those who don't want to supply what life demands suffer the consequences.
Sunday Adelaja
#2. Sometimes life demands things of you, that just the fact of being alive means for allowing for possibilites that may be far from what you'd planned or even hoped.
Robin Black
#3. For you to really make it in life and not be defeated in life, life demands that you stretch yourself. It is a demand of life.
Sunday Adelaja
#4. We do not ask life what the meaning of life is. Life asks us, what is the meaning of your life. And life demands our answer.
Viktor E. Frankl
#11. It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
Orison Swett Marden
#12. Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.
Le Corbusier
#13. At some point in this death-penalty debate, the sanctity of innocent life demands that men and women of conservative conscience have to say: Enough.
Rod Dreher
#15. Life demands movement, but we must not take any step at all! We must not take steps to any direction at all for every direction leads somewhere, but not all directions go somewhere! People going somewhere must not just take steps to anywhere!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#18. Friends who love us know that motherhood is about transitioning
and adjusting, constantly, to those changes. We must become masters of change because that is what life demands of us.
Meg Meeker
#19. It is not about what you like, it is about what life demands. It is the demand of life and you must supply it.
Sunday Adelaja
#21. Life demands honesty, the ability to face, admit, and express oneself.
Starhawk
#22. If you are determined to live life to the full, if you are determined to conquer in life, if you are determined to win in life, if you are determined to soar in life, you must not shy away from this particular demand. Life demands death.
Sunday Adelaja
#23. We are the victims of the world's most comprehensive robbery. Life demands a balance. It's all right if we do a little robbing now.
Maya Angelou
#24. When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results is a resentment of life almost as deep-seated as the fear of death
Tom Robbins
#28. Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men.
Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#29. Life demands nothing from us
Except,
To die.
It is the ultimate act of humility.
It is the ultimate act of final humanity.
Stark Hunter
#31. We stand the risk of failure, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.
Sunday Adelaja
#32. There are things that life demands of every person living on the surface of the earth.
Sunday Adelaja
#33. The truth is that anything worthwhile we do in life demands effort.
Rosalie De Rosset
#35. Life demands that we live to care for others instead of living to care for self
Sunday Adelaja
#36. Selfishness is one of the most destructive forces in man that is why life demands for its death.
Sunday Adelaja
#37. When you supply what life demands, you enjoy the beauty of life.
Sunday Adelaja
#38. All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
Pope Paul VI
#39. All life demands change, variety, contrast - else there is small zest to it.
Mark Twain
#40. Idealistic notions that guide a younger person frequently prove unsustainable. Concluding any stage of life demands that a person rebuilds oneself after living destroys our ideological beliefs.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#41. Perhaps it is not such a bad marriage after all? There are innumerable marriages where two people, both twisted and wrong in their depths, are well matched, making each other miserable in the way they need, in the way the pattern of their life demands.
Doris Lessing
#42. Life demands sacrifice and difficult decisions from us at every moment. Living does not mean passing through a void of nothingness but rather through a web of relationships among beings, each with their own weight and volume and texture.
Shin Kyung-sook
#45. Rock bottom demands we pay a price for the ride back to the top.
Toni Sorenson
#46. All my devotion is an insult to God unless every bit of my practical life squares with Jesus Christ's demands.
Eric Ludy
#47. Life itself demands change from every dweller of planet earth.
Sunday Adelaja
#48. A pantheist's god is a passive god, but omnipresent God is Beauty who demands worship, passion, and the sacrifice of a life, for He owns it.
Ann Voskamp
#49. Life's most wrenching choices are not between right and wrong but between competing demands on our time, our resources, our love and loyalty.
Terryl L. Givens
#50. As a young person, you have no fixed address, no studio, no money for materials, so I made things sort of on the run. That life doesn't favor the stability and spatial demands of painting.
David Salle
#51. In a society that almost demands life at double time, speed and addictions numb us to our own experience. In such a society, it is almost impossible to settle into our bodies or stay connected with our hearts, let alone connect with one another or the earth where we live.
Jack Kornfield
#52. Getting better from depression demands a lifelong commitment. I've made that commitment for my life's sake and for the sake of those who love me.
Susan Polis Schutz
#53. A journalist marries the news, Seymour. She's capricious, cruel, and jealous. She demands you follow her to wherever on Earth life is cheapest, where she'll stay a day or two, then jet off. You, your safety, your family are nothing,
David Mitchell
#54. When you live by the demands and supply of life, your life becomes easily predictable.
Sunday Adelaja
#55. Success demands a price that only a few are willing to pay ... blood, flesh, time, money, pride, heartbreak and energy. Anyone who has ever succeeded has the battle scars to prove the sacrifices they've made.
Toni Sorenson
#56. No matter who we are, where we live or our status in life, we would never really be able to escape the demands and supplies of life.
Sunday Adelaja
#57. These demands of life are so universal that either we like it or not, we are going to come across them one way or another. The response we give determines what our lives become.
Sunday Adelaja
#58. Human beings weren't designed to handle the amount of stress our modern life loads on us, which makes it difficult to hear our natural parenting instincts. It's almost as if we're forced to parent in our spare time, after meeting the demands of work, commuting and household responsibilities.
Laura Markham
#59. The writer does not dare dream of giving the best of his individuality. No, he must never express his anger. The vacillating demands of mediocrity must be satisfied. Amuse the people, be their clown, give them platitudes about which they can laugh, shadows of truth which they can hold as truths.
Aleksandar Hemon
#60. Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well as talking.
Susan Jacoby
#61. Sometimes life requires more of you than you have to give & demands you plunge into the reinvention of yourself if you truly wanna live.
Curtis Tyrone Jones
#62. In life one rarely knows which remarks of the hundreds uttered in the course of a day will turn out to be auspicious. In fiction, foreshadowing is planted and flagged in some (hopefully or desperately) subtle way, drama demands it.
Delia Ephron
#63. Roger was not personally ambitious; he mainly wanted life not to make too many demands on him.
John Lanchester
#64. Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
Viktor E. Frankl
#65. I cannot pretend that I regard this with favor, but the purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done. This is what fate demands of us.
- Oromis
Christopher Paolini
#66. What kind of love demands the life of another? A child at that?"
"Danish love, my sweet. Can't you smell it?
A.J. Hartley
#67. The Lord only demands of us what is within our capabilities.
Paulo Coelho
#68. Unfortunately, we cannot live our lives according to the moral and religious convictions or petrified dogmas of our forebears. We have an obligation to live by our own faith, forever renewing the traditions of the past and adapting them to the demands of own time and place.
Farquhar McHarg
#69. Science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.
Ivan Pavlov
#70. Cliche but accurate: Kick a football, then ask it whether it meant to fly. All action demands an equal and opposite reaction. You can't blame an object battered by inertial forces; you can't blame me, bouncing through the pinball machine of life.
Robin Wasserman
#71. Starting requires motivation, finishing demands perseverance.
Moagi Keretetse
#72. The most liberating act of free, unconditional grace demands that the recipient give up control of his or her life.
Timothy Keller
#73. There is nothing we can do about or against these demands of life.
Sunday Adelaja
#74. [E]ach of our voices has something unique to say. Not only should I not mold my life to the demands of external conformity; I can't even find the model by which to live outside myself. I can only find it within.
Charles Taylor
#75. Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.
William Feather
#76. Life really could be an enjoyable experience, if we only knew what it demands of us.
Sunday Adelaja
#77. One must not love oneself so much, as to avoid getting involved in the risks of life that history demands of us, and those that fend off danger will lose their lives.
Oscar Romero
#78. Our belief that a person takes part in an unknown life which his or her love would allow us to enter is, of all that love demands in order to come into being, what it prizes the most, and what makes it care little for the rest.
Marcel Proust
#80. Every transformation demands as its precondition "the ending of a world"-the collapse of an old philosophy of life.
C. G. Jung
#81. Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you'll keep faith in me, you'll remember who we are, and you'll never feel despair.
Ann Brashares
#82. As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
William Faulkner
#83. 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
#84. Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?
Dennis Prager
#85. To be sensitive, as ideologically defined, requires that one not merely accept but "affirm" other people's way of life or even "celebrate" diversity in general. Like other demands for "sensitivity," this demand offers no reason - unless fear of being disapproved, denounced, or harassed is a reason.
Thomas Sowell
#86. Evaluate the demands in your child's life (at home and at school) - and find at least one "cognitive unicycle" that may be sabotaging him or her. Then, if you can, get rid of it.
Todd Rose
#87. How often do you cave in to the pressures of the crowd, seeking the approval of others instead of the approval of God? We all like to be liked - but that can be a very dangerous thing. Make it your goal to live for Christ and be faithful to Him, regardless of what the crowd demands.
Billy Graham
#88. I know that plans and reality may be two different things, but I think my demands on life are minimal.
Moshe Dayan
#89. The Catechism was not written to please you. It will not make life easy for you, because it demands of you a new life.
Pope Benedict XVI
#90. Those who neglect the demands of life, they live in perpetual pain and regret.
Sunday Adelaja
#91. All my life I have preserved in the depths of my heart a live faith in my Creator, the Defender of the World, in His Sanctifying Grace and in the expiatory sacrifice of Christ our Saviour, but never have I agreed that true religion demands outward manifestations.
Valery Bryusov
#92. The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily budget of 24 hours is the calm realization of the extreme difficulty of the task, of the sacrifices and the endless effort which it demands.
Arnold Bennett
#93. The life inside a book always felt welcoming to Knight. It pressed no demands on him, while the world of human interactions was so complex.
Michael Finkel
#94. Knowledge of our duties is the most essential part of the philosophy of life. If you escape duty you avoid action. The world demands results.
George Washington Goethals
#96. Jesus demands to be Master and Lord of every part of your life. Is He Lord of your mind, of what you think, read, and believe? Of what you dream about, meditate on, and entertain yourself with? Do your eyes belong to Christ? Can [you] ask God's blessing on it? Can [you] do this to the glory of God?
Billy Graham
#97. Art is a tyrant. It demands heart, brain, soul, body. The entireness of the votary. Nothing less will win its highest favor. I wed art. It is my husband, my world, my life dream, the air I breathe. I know nothing else, feel nothing else, think nothing else.
Rosa Bonheur
#98. We call on the Senate to reject any judicial nominee who does not affirm fundamental civil rights, including a woman's right [to obtain an abortion on demand]. The threat an [pro-life] judiciary poses to women's lives demands nothing less.
Susana Martinez
#99. Language, identity and forms of life are the terms in which political demands are shaped and voiced.
Terry Eagleton
#100. It wasn't science and technology that cause a slow progress,
but collective knowledge of the society and market demands.
Toba Beta
