Top 100 Quotes About Philosophy Of Life
#1. The basic philosophy of life seemed to be: What do I care? It's none of my business. [The philosophy of Naples, Italy.]
Franco Di Mare
#2. Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our neighbors build their philosophy of life.
A.J. Cronin
#3. In 1971, 73 percent of incoming freshmen said that it is essential or very important to "develop a meaningful philosophy of life," 37 percent to be "very well-off financially" (not well-off, note, but very well-off). By 2011, the numbers were almost reversed, 47 percent and 80 percent, respectively.
William Deresiewicz
#4. Most philosophies wrap their seekers in a strict belief system. By virtue of what they include, they exclude everything else, especially some vital realizations. Periodically revising our philosophy of life as we live it is, therefore, a critically valuable exercise.
Charles Bates
#5. I do not believe for a moment that the Scriptures are against wealth. But the warning to those who make wealth their pursuit is a stern reality. Wealth must be processed through a philosophy of life that is greater than wealth itself. If not, it shapes the mind for bitter disappointments.
Ravi Zacharias
#6. The human being needs a framework of values, a philosophy of life, a religion or religion-surrogate to live by and understand by, in about the same sense that he needs sunlight, calcium or love.
Abraham Maslow
#7. My philosophy of life is very simple; I want to be very simple, loving, and kind.
Debasish Mridha
#8. Resisting a task is usually a sign that it's meaningful-which is why it's awakening your fears and stimulating procrastination. You could adopt "Do whatever you're resisting the most" as a philosophy of life.
Oliver Burkeman
#9. The most disappointing feature of working for a cause is that so few people have a philosophy of life. We used to say, in the suffrage movement, that we could trust the woman who believed in suffrage, but we could never trust the woman who just wanted to vote.
Jeannette Rankin
#10. In the presence of death, no philosophy of life can feel triumphant!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#11. I plan to stand by nonviolence, because I have found it to be a philosophy of life that regulates not only my dealings in the struggle for racial justice, but also my dealings with people, and with my own self.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#12. Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!
Barbara Johnson
#13. This wasn't about an infraction, but dictating a philosophy of life: certain types of people must be overseen.
Victor LaValle
#14. Weight loss can change your whole character. That always amazed me: Shedding pounds does change your personality. It changes your philosophy of life because you recognize that you are capable of using your mind to change your body.
Jean Nidetch
#15. Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#16. Every transformation demands as its precondition "the ending of a world"-the collapse of an old philosophy of life.
C. G. Jung
#17. My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.
Will Cuppy
#18. 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
#19. Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life. Show me the person they sleep with and I will tell you their valuation of themselves.
Ayn Rand
#20. First of all you must understand that practising martial arts means studying a certain oriental philosophy of life, otherwise it's merely a vacuous sport devoid of any significance.
William C. Brown
#21. It's a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.
Vivienne Westwood
#22. Bicyclist's Philosophy of Life ... It's a matter of faith. You can keep upright only by moving forward. You have to have your eyes on the goal, not the ground.
Susan Vreeland
#23. A philosophy of life is a bundle of wisdom you have gathered from your reading and experience. It is not a rigid ideology that allows no development and complexity. It's a living thing, a developing idea about life that belongs to you alone.
Thomas Moore
#24. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
Yann Martel
#25. Out of sight, out of mind. My philosophy of life in a test tube.
Julie Anne Peters
#26. Your Philosophy of life shapes you more than anything else
Tony Robbins
#27. It's not atheists who get stuck in my caw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for awhile. We all must pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we ... But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as means of transportation.
Yann Martel
#28. Insisting that his writing did not offer a philosophy of life, Hardy claims that each poem was an 'impression', intensely subjective and evanescent.
Geoffrey Harvey
#29. His philosophy of life had been that we only live once.
Now there had matured in him the sense of another truth about himself and the world: that we have only one conscience - and that a crippled conscience is as irretrievable as a lost life.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#30. The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension ... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#31. What we do with our lives largely depends on the philosophy of life we have subjected our lives to as a way of living life, and which controls, move and directs our lives!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#32. Here is a good philosophy of life: Enjoy the road with flowers; enjoy the road with stones!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#33. A sound philosophy of life, I think, may be the most valuable asset for a psychiatrist to have when he is treating a patient.
Viktor E. Frankl
#34. You know what my philosophy of life is? That it's important to have some laughs, but you got to suffer a little too, because otherwise you miss the whole point to life.
Woody Allen
#35. Someone asked me once what my philosophy of life was, and I said some crazy thing. I should have said, how the hell do I know?
Rock Hudson
#36. No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his "philosophy of life" until we know exactly how he treats his wife, his children, his neighbors, his friends, his subordinates and his enemies.
Sydney J. Harris
#37. My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.
Ronald Reagan
#38. The ductless glands secrete among other things our moods, our aspirations, our philosophy of life.
Aldous Huxley
#39. My philosophy of life is that I am deeply, deeply serious about my work and for the rest I like to have a few laughs.
Maggi Hambling
#40. Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.
Jerzy Kosinski
#41. My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons.
Gene Simmons
#42. You will attract to yourself people who harmonize with your own philosophy of life, whether you wish it or not.
Napoleon Hill
#43. Impressionism is not a movement, it is a philosophy of life.
Max Lieberman
#44. My philosophy of life: Wake up. Be happy. Hurt no one. Go to bed. Wake up. Repeat.
Jodi Ambrose
#45. There's no longer a monolithic evil empire somewhere, spreading a different philosophy of life. That doesn't exist.
Seth Gordon
#46. There are a lot of little lessons that can be taught around the home without sitting a child down and boring them to death with your philosophy of life!
Helen McCrory
#47. Humanism or atheism is a wonderful philosophy of life as long as you are big, strong, and between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five. But watch out if you are in a lifeboat and there are others who are younger, bigger, or smarter.
William Murray, 1st Earl Of Mansfield
#48. My philosophy of life is simple: I need someone to love, something to wait and do something.
Elvis Presley
#49. Words summarize the American philosophy of life: Live and let live; Let's make a deal. 8 words summarize American foreign policy: We're better than you; Do it our way.
Gary North
#50. Flowers teach us the philosophy of life - we should live and die beautifully.
Anna Stepanova
#51. Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as possible. It had never let her down.
Terry Pratchett
#52. The philosophy of life is the ultimate of finest thoughts that reflects yourself and your outlook about the world.
Debasish Mridha
#53. Have a spiritual basis which guides you in life. Have a philosophy of life to live by.
Tom Osborne
#54. PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE
I have so much to do today.
I can't possibly get it all done,
so I'm not going to start.
Chocolate Waters
#55. One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
Clarence Darrow
#56. The ultimate philosophy of life is not found in words, but it is found in the ways of living life.
Debasish Mridha
#57. I've worked with people and I've known people that were really competitive, but I've always said that I take an Elizabeth Bennett philosophy of life - I laugh. I love my job, but if it means hurting someone, I won't do it.
Anne Hathaway
#58. You can pray and fight at the same time, Corporal. Especially if you learn how before things get rough. It's important to have a philosophy of life ... and of death.
Henry V. O'Neil
#59. The main thing Karate offers to me is a philosophy of life. The philosophy of Karate is respect and discipline. You give 100% of whatever you do, in every activity.
Lyoto Machida
#60. What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.
Jeannette Rankin
#61. Whether people know the evolution of the conversation or not, I don't know, but thematically, as a comedian, I stay in the same ballpark - around my issues and my philosophy of life.
Marc Maron
#62. Every man must have a philosophy of life,
for everyone must have a standard by which to measure his conduct.
And philosophy is nothing but a standard by which to measure.
B.R. Ambedkar
#63. Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.
Dale Carnegie
#64. If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life. If, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
Helen Keller
#65. My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics.
Alva Myrdal
#66. For there are fashions in myth, and the world-conquering West of the nineteenth century needed a philosophy of life in which realpolitik - victory for the tough people who face the bleak facts - was the guiding principle. Thus the bleaker the facts you face, the tougher you seem to be.
Alan W. Watts
#67. Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't.
Chuck Palahniuk
#68. Art teaches you the philosophy of life, and if you can't learn it from art, you can't learn it at all. It shows you that there is no perfection. There is light, and there is shadow. Everything is in half tint.
William Morris Hunt
#69. Oh no.' Straight raised his eyes to me, and a slight smile touched the corners of his lips. 'A philosophy of life is more terrible than syphilis and people - you have to give them credit - take every precaution not to become infected. Especially by a philosophy of life.
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
#70. As actors, we have a philosophy, which is this: great fun. That has transmitted itself into the dwarf philosophy of life. We're up for a brawl, we're up for a bloody good feed, and if you've got food, well, we share what we've got, and so should you.
John Callen
#71. I basically have a very positive philosophy of life, because I don't feel I have anything to lose. Most things are going to turn out okay.
Hal Ashby
#72. The trouble arises from the generally received philosophy of life, according to which life is a contest, a competition, in which respect is to be a ccorded to the victor. This view leads to an undue cultivation of the will at the expense of the senses and the intellect.
Bertrand Russell
#73. My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of the artist's most profound life experiences.
Alfred Stieglitz
#74. You know, bicycling isn't just a matter of balance," I said. "it's a matter of faith. You can keep upright only by moving forward. You have to have your eyes on the goal, not the ground. I'm going to call that the Bicyclist's Philosophy of Life.
Susan Vreeland
#75. It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Isaac Asimov
#76. But, in fact, a person's sexual choice is the result and sum of their fundamental convictions. Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life.
Ayn Rand
#77. The republic, as I at least understand it, means association, of which liberty is only an element, a necessary antecedent. It means association, a new philosophy of life, a divine Ideal that shall move the world, the only means of regeneration vouchsafed to the human race.
Giuseppe Mazzini
#78. The folkish philosophy of life must succeed in bringing about that nobler age in which men no longer are concerned with breeding dogs, horses, and cats, but in elevating man himself.
Adolf Hitler
#79. With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.
Samuel E. Morison
#80. Tell me what a man finds sexually attractive and I will tell you his entire philosophy of life. Show me the woman he sleeps with and I will tell you his valuation of himself.
Ayn Rand
#81. That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic.
Alexander McCall Smith
#82. Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things.
Marcel Proust
#83. Hey, you want to hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.
Budd Schulberg
#84. ALways be careful what you say. You can always say you're sorry, but you can never take back what you said.
F.B. Newman
#86. The foundation stone of all philosophy is self-knowledge and being true to thy self. A person must address an inner necessity in order to realize the fundamental truth about oneself, seek self-improvement, and gain knowledge through experience.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#88. My teacher asked my favorite color. ... I said 'Rainbow'.... and I was punished to stand out of my class.
Saket Assertive
#89. Regardless of what you believe in or conceive of as the functionality of Reality, the Oneness of you with all you experience in your life is an absolute
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
#90. Some of us teach ourselves and our children to love the superficial outer; our looks, hair, skin, clothes rather than the greater beauty that resides within whereas it is that inner beauty that really defines you and who you truly are
Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#91. A person without a philosophy for living is at the tender mercy of other people.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#92. To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not have to have a complicated moral philosophy. But a writer always tries, I think, to be a part of a solution, to understand a little about life and to pass this on.
Anne Lamott
#93. What we gain in the world, we lose in the world, forgotten in death. We must rather fancy what we brought into the world, for therein lives our story, our legend.
Palle Oswald
#94. We can bring peace in the world, not by eliminating violence in the world, but by finding the causes of violence and by preventing those from infecting the society.
Debasish Mridha
#97. In 1963, while my brothers were engaged in their lives, I call this period of my life 'my character-building years.' I adhered to the saying, 'When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
Marc Ashton
#98. Plan for the rest of my life, I will travel the world and retire in the himalayas.
Poonam Parihar
#99. I am not afraid to die because I know heaven is a place of artists, musicians and poets
Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
