Quotes About Life

“But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,” faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. “Business!” cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. “Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!” – Jacob Marley (Charles Dickens)

“There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.” – Mother Teresa

“From now on, my life lived will be my life’s work. ” – Mari Andrew

“All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in.” – Desmond Tutu

“I promise, if you keep searching for everything beautiful in this world, you will eventually become it.” – Tyler Kent White

“The first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb, when it comes, find us doing sensible and human things — praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts — not huddled together like frightened sheet and thinking about the bombs.” – C.S. Lewis

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It’s one thing to have a great idea, it’s another thing to do something about it.” – Shaun Roundy