Top 100 Life For Quotes
#1. I think I got a rock in mine, 'stead of bacon."
"Heh. Well, that's life for you. Sometimes you get bacon. Sometimes you get a rock. My advice to you, sir, is to eat what you can, spit out what you cain't.
Rob Vollmar
#2. I know that some people feel that cooking is time consuming, but cooking is an activity that you can do for yourself and you'll be in good condition to do all the other things that you want to do in your life for a very long time.
William Katt
#3. There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart.
Judith Anderson
#4. You don't get any points in life for doing things the hard way.
Tim Fargo
#5. I am bound, as a pastor, by divine command to give my life for those whom I love, and that is all Salvadoreans, even those who are going to kill me.
Oscar Romero
#6. But I needed this, Whit. I needed to pay him back. For stealing my life. For stealing our life together. - Celia
James Patterson
#7. In recent years, research into the prevention and treatment of arthritis has led to measures that successfully reduce pain and improve the quality of life for millions.
Charles W. Pickering
#8. Educators not only teach, but they also inspire students to learn, ignite the light of imaginations, shine the sense of perception, and define the path of life for future generations.
Debasish Mridha
#9. I wondered quickly if I'd give my life so that a dragon could live. If someone offered me that deal, your life for the existence of dragons.I thought maybe yes, maybe no.
Dave Eggers
#10. We need to focus on getting people back to work, focus on jobs, the economy, the debt and the spending. That's what will improve the quality of life for American families and for hard-working taxpayers.
John Barrasso
#11. Every day another miracle
Only death will tear us apart
To sacrifice a life for yours
I'd be the blood of the Lazarus heart
The blood of the Lazarus heart
Sting
#12. I have not known of too many people who found Christ on their deathbeds. When we come to Christ in our youth, a life is saved. When we come in old age, a soul is salvaged and life eternal is assured; but the opportunity to live a life for Christ has been lost.
Billy Graham
#13. Persistence may not solve everything - at least in our lifetime - but it is truer to the meaning of life for us to wait for another plowing, another seeding, another harvest, then not.
Joan D. Chittister
#14. My words and my stories are merely just memories that already lie, dormant, in your mind. It is my sole purpose to awaken them; to bring them back to life, for you to feel and to taste them once again. But they are already inside you... And always have been.
Jose N. Harris
#15. We're not at a point in time to be taking chances with children and young people in the church. The Holy Father himself said ... there is no room in the priesthood or religious life for someone who has abused a child. I think he's right.
Roger Mahony
#16. Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century.
Lord Mountbatten
#17. It was made out to be some kind of honor, giving your life for the good of humanity, but it was really just a reminder that cyborgs were not like everyone else.
Marissa Meyer
#18. I like interesting myself in the lives of others. God put these people in my life for a reason. Maybe for my learning. Hopefully to help them. I like it when I can help. My heart aches for those who suffer and walk a difficult path.
Kirn Hans
#19. She built her character with the adversity she had faced, so she could live the best of her life for the rest of life.
Nikki Rowe
#20. I mean "God" as shorthand for the Good, for the animating energy of love; for Life, for the light that radiates from within people and from above; in the energies of nature, even in our rough, messy selves.
Anne Lamott
#21. The difference is that they [Europeans] don't have that culture about hip-hop as a lifestyle, a way of life; for them it's more of the new trend, the new music that you have to like.
K-Maro
#22. I am quite willing to be the blind instrument of higher ends. To give one's life for the cause is nothing. But to have one's illusions destroyed - that is really almost more than one can bear.
Joseph Conrad
#23. If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
Muhammad Iqbal
#24. The Clayr saw me, the Wallmaker made me, the King quenched me, the Abhorsen wields me so that no Dead shall walk in Life. For this is not their path.
Garth Nix
#25. Positive change always encounters resistance, conflict, and obstacles. We must embrace difficult and heated situations in life, for that is the method of igniting our reactions in order to transform them.
Yehuda Berg
#26. Bad choices or good, if you never take chances, someone else will build your life for you.
Ellen Hopkins
#27. Whether or not there was room in her life for Tamani, Laurel knew that there was precious little room in Tamani's life for anything but Laurel. He lived to protect her, and he'd never failed her. Annoyed her, frustrated her, hurt her, maddened her - but never once failed her.
Aprilynne Pike
#28. The cable was still sending sharp sparks into the air. He could think of nothing in life that he especially desired, but those purple sparks
those wildly-blooming flowers of fire
he would trade his life for the chance to hold them in his hands."
-from "The Life of a Stupid Man
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
#29. The glorious hours sound not just for heroic action on the battlefield but also for those activities that occur in daily life, for it is when war is over that a soldier's heart and character are also revealed.
Don Kladstrup
#30. My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill.
Mahatma Gandhi
#31. Life for the unhappy is an endless search for 'the good parent,' one who will truly love him instead of making him afraid ...
Lucy Freeman
#32. I do not want to believe that death is the gateway to another life. For me, it is a closed door. I do not say it is a step we must all take, but that it is a horrible and dirty adventure.
Albert Camus
#33. Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
Abraham Verghese
#34. I only know two things in life for certain: I know I love her and I know when her memory of our time together fades, I'll still feel exactly the same as I do today. Time is irrelevant, as I once said to her. And I'm happy wasting every second of it on her.
Kelly Moran
#36. One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
Gustave Flaubert
#37. What we do every day - whether you live in
Mexico, the United States, Russia, China
can have a very negative impact on
an entire way of life for an entire people
far away from that source
Sheila Watt-Cloutier
#38. I love my children and I love my wife with all my heart. And I would die, die gladly, if that would make a better life for them.
Medgar Evers
#39. By venturing into space, we improve life for everyone here on Earth - scientific advances and innovations that come from this kind of research create products we use in our daily lives.
Buzz Aldrin
#40. My desire to work - my desire to engage with my creativity as intimately and as freely as possible - is my strongest personal incentive to fight back against pain, by any means necessary, and to fashion a life for myself that is as sane and healthy and stable as it can possibly be. But
Elizabeth Gilbert
#41. I don't envision a very long life for myself. I think my life will run out before my work does. I've designed it that way.
Townes Van Zandt
#42. Medical statistics will be our standard of measurement: we will weigh life for life and see where the dead lie thicker, among the workers or among the privileged.
Rudolf Virchow
#43. Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances.
Ernst Mach
#44. I make music to bring the dead to life for a couple minutes and then let it go.
Dave Sitek
#45. people come into your life for different reasons. Some are forever, but those are rare. Most people are seasonal - they're with you for a reason and when that reason is fulfilled, they move on.
Erin Nicholas
#47. When you have no money in New York, you're living in a shoebox, and it's freezing. When you have no money in L.A., you're living in a slightly larger shoebox, and you can go outside and feel okay about your life for a minute.
Anna Kendrick
#48. I lived the street life for a minute; I lost a lot of friends.
Jason Mitchell
#49. Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic
Oscar Wilde
#50. The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#51. When you deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow Him, you die while you simultaneously truly live. That is when you experience the reality that "whoever loses his life for my sake will find it" (Matthew 16:25).
Tony Evans
#52. I don't mean to complain. I wouldn't trade my life for anything.
Lucinda Williams
#53. She wants you here as much as I do. For her it is to save her life. For me it is to have one.
Toni Morrison
#54. For many men, the fundamental assumption is that they can have both a successful professional life and a fulfilling personal life. For many women, the assumption is that trying to do both is difficult at best and impossible at worst.
Sheryl Sandberg
#55. Being alone can be a very effective way of calming down and is also enjoyable, especially if engaged in a special interest, one of the greatest pleasures in life for someone with Asperger's syndrome.
Tony Attwood
#56. The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.
Pat Metheny
#57. I want my legacy to be greater freedom, greater prosperity and a better way of life for my family, our employees and all Americans. And I wish the same for every nation on earth.
Charles Koch
#58. If you want a meaningful life for yourself don't ask "What can the world offer to me?" but "What can I offer to the world?
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#60. There is nothing terrible in life for the man who realizes there is nothing terrible in death.
Epicurus
#61. That I am ready to throw all of my books and papers into the fire, and resolve never more to renounce the pleasure of life for the sake of reasoning and philosophy.
David Hume
#62. The world's going to change climatically. We just want to control the change. We want to have a high quality of life for billions of people as we pass through this era.
Bill Nye
#63. Those lessons that I got along the way are the ones that have shaped my life for the last 20 years.
John Sculley
#64. A potential revolutionary situation exists in any country where the government consistently fails in its obligation to ensure at least a minimally decent standard of life for the great majority of its citizens.
Mao Zedong
#65. Someone once said, People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. They forgot one other option: Some people come only to give us their contact information, let us know that we really need to get together sometime, and why don't we give them a call?
Caprice Crane
#66. There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#67. Oh, God," Wilhelm prayed, "Let me out of my trouble. Let me out of my thoughts, and let me do something better with myself. For all the time I have wasted I am very sorry. Let me out of this clutch and into a different life. For I am all balled up. Have mercy.
Saul Bellow
#68. When we do the hard stuff for the first 20 years we will have an easier life for the 60, but if we take it easy for the first 20 then we will live a life of struggle later on.
N.N. Porchezhiyan
#69. Like the Bible tells us, when a man will lay down his life for a friend, well, then there ain't no greater love in this here world than that.
Bette Greene
#70. Dream the biggest dream for yourself. Hold the highest vision of life for yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
#71. There were no other eyes in the world like them. In the whole world there was only one being able to unite in itself the universe and the meaning of life for him.
Leo Tolstoy
#72. It's a new dawn
It's a new day
It's a new life for me
And I'm feeling good
Leslie Bricusse
#73. I always thought I'd make a good parent, but I was single and led a solitary life for many, many years. Then I met David, and he had experience with kids and wanted to have a family, too.
Neil Patrick Harris
#74. You will see by this that no man should be judged by another here in this life, for the good or evil he has done. Deeds may be properly judged, whether they are good or bad, but not men.
Clifton Wolters
#75. Dear God, thank You for providing for all of my earthly needs. I ask that You continue to guide me clearly to everything that I need to fulfill my mission and to be able to provide a safe and healthful life for myself and my loved ones. Amen.
Doreen Virtue
#76. Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.
Miguel De Cervantes
#77. The organized church sometimes puts boundaries on us that the Bible doesn't. So I'm living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. Some people won't understand, but I don't give an account to some people.
Anne Graham Lotz
#78. When you use your life for God's glory, everything you do can become an act of worship
Rick Warren
#79. Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#80. I don't think young people are as demoralized as the media and government would like us to think. The obvious sign of that is how strong and how close personal connections are and how much people are able to build a life for themselves, despite all this stuff that's been thrown at them.
Thom Yorke
#81. I'm not like that fellow who thought it a far, far better thing to trade his life for that of another. I'm nothing like him: I'd never volunteer to lay my head in the lap of Madame la Guillotine. No, that fellow was a hero and I'm not a hero at all.
Franny Billingsley
#82. People come in and out of your life. For a time they are your world; they are everything. And then one day they're not. There's no telling how long you will have them near.
Jenny Han
#83. We don't have all the answers. A few months ago, that would have driven me crazy. Now I know sometimes you have to just take life for what it is instead of worrying about what might happen.
Amy Patrick
#84. In any case how many took the oath and are now licking the toes of the whiteman?No, you take an oath to confirm a choice already made. The decision to lay or not lay your life for the people lies in the heart. The oath is the water sprinkled on a man's head at baptism
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
#85. It's true: theatre has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I always liked everything about it. As a child, I used to get so excited about performing, I'd get the giggles.
Hattie Morahan
#86. My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to support himself and his wife and family.
Albrecht Durer
#88. It is nothing, to give one's life for Ireland. I'm not the first and maybe I won't be the last. What's my life compared with the cause?
Kevin Barry
#89. There are many alternatives to embryonic stem cell research, alternatives with great potential. We need to support these and oppose creating life for the sole purpose of destroying it.
Ernest Istook
#90. I wouldn't change my life for the world at the moment.
Michael Owen
#91. Adventuresome stories to life for kids big and small who dare to dream.
Jack Makhlouf
#92. The money, the fame, if that comes, that's fantastic. But at the end of the day, my aim is to go to sleep at night content and have a purpose, and to know that I'm not swapping my life for money and some mind-numbing boring job, making easy money and protecting my brain.
Mark De Mori
#93. Work is life for me, it is the only point of life-and with it there is almost religious belief that service is everything.
Laurence Olivier
#94. In a way, I realized, every woman risked her life when bringing a child into the world. Labor and delivery were serious business, and not for the faint of heart. Yet down through the centuries women took that risk, willing to trade life for life.
Mindy Starns Clark
#95. Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.
Emil Cioran
#97. Sugar, you can't control what people think or what they do. You can only control how you react to it. Bottom line is you need to decide who it is you're living this life for. You or them?
Tracy Brogan
#98. I don't want you to change your life for me. You'll have to make the same decision every day, over and over - it must be for yourself alone. Otherwise you will come to resent me.
Lisa Kleypas
#99. Giving his life for another means nothing to him, because he can always have more, but for you, he'll give up his soul.
Carole Cummings
#100. I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.
Vince Neil
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