Quotes and sayings for all occasions.
Quotes / Living and lifetime
Find the best quotations and citations on living and lifetime.
Quote 1343
Do not waste your time on social questions. What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: wastage time indifference poverty richness uselessness society
Quote 1327
The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his reposeby: Edward CokeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: home security injury violence recovery
Quote 1294
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.by: Mark TwainShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: humor secret sources joy sorrow heaven
Quote 1275
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their timeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: carlessness time wastage lifetime money superficiality
Quote 1253
It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with itby: EpiktetShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 1240
Things do not change; we changeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: self-development changes opinion
Quote 1239
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdomby: ConfuciusShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: changes happiness wisdom self-development
Quote 1238
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: living changes acceptance preparation
Quote 1237
In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitableShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: chance
Quote 1236
If there is no struggle, there is no progressShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: opportunity changes power
Quote 1235
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovatorby: Francis BaconShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: advantage acceptance future evil changes
Quote 1234
Change in all things is sweetby: AristotleShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: changes
Quote 1222
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: peace harmony individualism satisfaction emotions
Quote 1209
Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flowerShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 1167
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good onesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 1151
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorableShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: aims opportunity chance doubt decision
Quote 1142
The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a livingby: Will RogersShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: learning living education work knowledge earnings
Quote 1127
Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operationby: John RuskinShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: skill talent experience intelligence passion unity
Quote 1125
You cannot create experience. You must undergo itby: Albert CamusShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: experience improvement self-development reality
Quote 1116
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwardsShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: lifetime experience self-development understanding past reality
Quote 1115
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes onby: Samuel ButlerShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: music individualism learning self-development
Quote 1107
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thoughtShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: age changes thoughts astonishment
Quote 1105
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old ageby: AristotleShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: bashfulness youth age character weakness
Quote 1104
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasmShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: age enthusiasm boredom interest indifference
Quote 1101
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feelShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: interest indifference age stupidity emotions youthfulness
Quote 1100
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start youngShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: age success youth decision effort reward health carefulness
Quote 1099
Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poorby: EuripidesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: youth richness preference lifetime poverty
Quote 1093
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enoughShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: age interest living indifference health
Quote 1092
Age considers; youth venturesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: age youth consideration courage adventure serenity carefulness
Quote 1091
A man growing old becomes a child againby: SophoclesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: age children changes self-development
Quote 1087
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptionsShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: youth age experience knowledge rules
Quote 1081
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to themby: EpiktetShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: character wisdom pleasure stupidity duty
Quote 1065
Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the peopleShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 1058
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful lifeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: power influence modesty lifetime value
Quote 1034
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. UnderstandShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: understanding serenity sadness troubles
Quote 1005
We are near waking when we dream we are dreamingby: NovalisShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 1002
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hoursShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: dreams success future confidence aims imaginations
Quote 1001
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meetShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 999
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreamsby: John BarrymoreShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: age dreams repentance changes
Quote 998
Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dreamby: Khalil GibranShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 996
Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fearby: Joseph ConradShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 995
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his wakingby: Margaret FullerShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: dreams understanding reality truth
Quote 994
In dreams begins responsibilityShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: dreams responsibility
Quote 992
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shameShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 991
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awakeby: René DescartesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: dreams imaginations reality
Quote 990
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of menShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 989
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the worldShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 946
Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all menShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 928
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankindby: John Stuart MillShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: boredom enthusiasm work duty people
Quote 924
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?by: Albert CamusShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: happiness harmony satisfaction lifetime
Quote 899
Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most sillyby: DiogenesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: stupidity intelligence animals people
Quote 881
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwritingShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: opportunity beauty attention
Quote 879
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of timeby: Albert CamusShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 878
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees itby: ConfuciusShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: beauty attention indifference
Quote 877
For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarityShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: beauty causes preference
Quote 876
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfactionShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: fools beauty satisfaction past
Quote 874
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beautyShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 873
Let us live for the beauty of our own realityby: Charles LambShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: beauty reality individualism
Quote 872
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this worldby: Blaise PascalShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: imaginations beauty justice happiness world
Quote 871
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternalby: Dante AlighieriShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: separation unity beauty
Quote 869
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk aloneShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: soul beauty loneliness
Quote 867
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our livesby: Albert EinsteinShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: truth beauty activity children lifetime permission
Quote 866
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: beauty attention habit indifference
Quote 865
Beauty is everywhere a welcome guestShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 864
Beauty is not caused. It isShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 863
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates themby: David HumeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 861
A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a powerby: George MeredithShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 858
Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with itShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 854
The only security of all is in a free pressby: Thomas JeffersonShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 835
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: preparation age lifetime
Quote 833
Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: friendship age compliment beauty
Quote 832
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man longShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 831
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: world self-knowledge attention miracle
Quote 830
She lacks the indefinable charm of weaknessShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 829
Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today. . . . What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued themShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: living people failure future reality
Quote 827
It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishlyShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: mind nature wisdom stupidity reality
Quote 823
I have spread my dreams beneath your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreamsShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 815
Life is a romantic business, but you have to make the romance.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 802
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within usShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: emotions future reality past character willpower talent ability
Quote 639
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of deathby: Walter WhitmanShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 636
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of viceby: Cato the YoungerShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: serenity advice problems weakness age
Quote 632
Old age: A great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold, you may have escaped, not from one master but from many.by: PlatonShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: age freedom emotions satisfaction passion
Quote 628
I can resist everything except temptationShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: power temptation desires passion virtue
Quote 620
An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stickShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 615
There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of courseShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: youth experience knowledge age antecedents children indifference
Quote 614
The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escapeby: Samuel JohnsonShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: birthday humanity thoughts carefulness
Quote 612
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energyby: VoltaireShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: virtue mistakes losses weakness energy reality
Quote 610
From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: birth death lifetime transience time
Quote 609
It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrectionby: VoltaireShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: birth nature wonder superficiality
Quote 606
Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: peace war learning performance
Quote 605
Which death is preferably to every other? – The unexpectedShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: death preference fortune
Quote 598
A woman's always younger than a man at equal yearsShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: age unity personality
Quote 594
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on childrenShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 591
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.by: Mark TwainShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: youth mind reality imaginations
Quote 549
The price of freedom is eternal vigilanceby: Thomas JeffersonShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: freedom attention dependence
Quote 548
If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinkingShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: unity mind critism people opinion
Quote 547
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I amby: Francis BaconShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: serenity indifference confidence future optimism age
Quote 543
Patriotism is the conviction that your country is superior to all others because you were born in it.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: patriotism homeland birth conviction preference egoism
Quote 524
Immigrant: An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than anotherShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
More quotes on the topics: preference opinion homeland stranger
Quote 519
True life is lived when tiny changes occurby: Leo TolstoiShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quotes by category:
- Career and success
- Coexistence, living together
- Education and intelligence
- Food and beverage
- Friendship and Familiarity
- Happiness and unhappiness
- Health and disease
- Joy and satisfaction
- Living and lifetime
- Love and passion
- Marriage, family and kids
- Motivation and positive thinking
- Music, art and literature
- Nature and animals
- Personality and character
- Politics and Government
- Problems and difficulties
- Professions and Work
- Property, money and richness
- Religion and faith
- Sports and Games
- Traveling and Leisure
- Truth and falsehood
No Subcategories here.
