Quotes About Life

“This is the great day of decision for each of us. For many it is the time of beginning something that will go on for as long as you live. I plead with you: don’t be a scrub! Rise to the high ground of spiritual, mental, and physical excellence. You can do it. You may not be a genius. You may be lacking in some skills. But so many of us can do better than we are now doing. We are members of this great Church whose influence is now felt over the world. We are people with a present and with a future. Don’t muff your opportunities. Be excellent.” – Gordon B. Hinkley

“Throughout history, every single time something has gotten better, it’s because somebody has come along to say, ‘This is stupid, we can do better.’ It’s the critics that drive improvement. It’s the critics who are the true optimists.” – Jaron Lenier, The Social Dilemma

“If you are complaining about something that has already happened, then you’re wasting your time.” – Peter Sage

“Humility is our most misunderstood and underappreciated virtue. It’s the opposite of what most people think and twenty times better. It doesn’t mean being less than anyone else, but transcending the concept of competition.” – Shaun Roundy

“What then is time? If no one asks me, then I know. If I wish to explain it to someone who asks, I know it not.” – St Augustine

“Don’t Cling to a Mistake Just Because You Spent a lot of Time Making it.” – Aubrey De Graf

“A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once. It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.” – William Shakespeare

“Your body is not your masterpiece – your life is. It is suggested to us a million times a day that our bodies are projects. They aren’t. Our lives are. Our spirituality is. Our relationships are. Our work is. Stop spending all day obsessing, cursing, perfecting your body like it’s all you’ve got to offer the world. Your body is not your art, it’s your paintbrush. Whether your paintbrush is a tall paintbrush or a thin paintbrush or a stocky paintbrush or a scatched up paintbrush is completely irrelevant. What is relevant is that you have a paintbrush which can be used to transfer your insides onto the canvas of your life – where others can see it and be inspired and comforted by it.” – Glennon Melton

“Tragedy plus time equals comedy.” – Steve Allen

“Do you want to have a humble share in perpetuating wisdom among men, in gathering up the inheritance of the ages, in formulating the rules of the mind for the present time, in discovering facts and causes, in turning men’s wandering eyes towards first causes and their hearts towards supreme ends, in reviving if necessary some dying flame, in organizing the propaganda of truth and goodness? That is the lot reserved for you. It is surely worth a little extra sacrifice; it is worth steadily pursuing with jealous passion.” – Antonin Sertillanges

“Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.” – L.R.Knost

“Only one thing can keep something close over time: holding it there. Grappling with it. Wrestling it to the ground, as Jacob did with the angel, and refusing to let go. What we dont wrestle we let go of. Love isn’t the absence of struggle. Love is struggle.” – Jonathon Safron Foer

Frodo: “I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.” Gandalf: “So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world, Frodo, besides the will of evil.”

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you’ll be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.” – Rudyard Kipling

“People in those old times had convictions; we moderns have only opinions. And it requires more than a mere opinion to erect a Gothic cathedral.” – Heinrich Heine

“Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.” – Lawrence Peter

“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’ To this day, especially in times of ‘disaster,’ I remember my mother’s words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers – so many caring people in this world.” – Fred Rogers

“As we learn to use our time wisely, we learn that diligence is more important than intelligence.” – Don Clarke

“Believe in the opportunities that lie ahead. I am reminded of what Abraham Lincoln said when he sat on the sidelines for a long time, losing election after election and struggling to make a professional contribution. He said simply, ‘I will prepare, and perhaps my chance will come.’ He lived long enough to learn what everyone learns—that chance always favors the prepared life.” – Howard Hunter

“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” – TS Eliot