Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.'
All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Death and life have their determined appointments riches and honors depend upon heaven.
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.
You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't.
I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the game, and in some ways that's about life too.
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.
Babies don't need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach... it pisses me off! I'll go over to a little baby and say 'What are you doing here? You haven't worked a day in your life!'
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.