Life Quotes

My only real contact with what my father did was that he could get 16-millimeter prints, so every weekend we would show two or three movies at home. But our house wasn't frequented by stars. My father's personal life was his personal life, and it was separate from his professional life.

~ Stanley R. Jaffe

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

~ Joseph L. Mankiewicz

This is how I feel about horror films: there's enough scary things that happen in day-to-day life. Sometimes just going and getting the mail is scary, when you open your bills. And so, sometimes I feel like scary movies are just tapping into those anxieties and magnifying them.

~ Josh Hamilton

I learned at a very early age that life is a battle. My family was poor, my neighborhood was poor. The only way that I could get away from the awfulness of life, at that time, was at the movies. There I decided that my big aim was to make money. And it was there that I became a very determined woman.

~ Susan Hayward

There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.

~ Todd Gitlin

The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn't it?

~ Ronnie James Dio

If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.

~ Henry James

Our entire family is replete with sentiments of patriotism. Uncle Swarna Singh left for his heavenly abode in jail in 1910, two or three years after my birth. Uncle Ajit Singh is leading the life of an exile in foreign countries.

~ Bhagat Singh

It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win the final battle.

~ Prescott Bush

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

~ Steve Jobs

I think you need to go through some stuff to really appreciate life and understand what it means to persevere, overcome and have faith. I think those tough times make you a stronger person.

~ Judith Hill

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

~ Billy Graham

As you keep your mind and heart focused in the right direction, approaching each day with faith and gratitude, I believe you will be empowered to live life to the fullest and enjoy the abundant life He has promised you!

~ Victoria Osteen

We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That's why we have the gift of faith.

~ Joyce Meyer

Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.

~ Dan Millman

Choose your friends with caution; plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.

~ Thomas S. Monson

I always joke about letting the haters motivate you. Everybody has that in their life, people who doubt them or make them feel less than they are. It just takes faith and belief in yourself, and you've got to dig deep into that. That has to come from you - nobody's going to give you that.

~ Jennifer Lopez

I tend to say faith is believing in life, and as I love life, I try to do the best with it, make it as serene and joyous as possible.

~ Sandrine Bonnaire

A woman of faith is blessed by faithful men in her life who hold the priesthood of God and honor this privilege: her father, bishop, husband, brothers, sons. They value her and the divine gifts given by God to His daughter. They sustain and encourage, and they understand the great mission of her life as a woman. They love her; they bless her.

~ Margaret D. Nadauld

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

~ George Sand

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

~ Martin Luther

Surfing is a life path. You have to really commit... You have to let go and have faith that it's gonna work out when you take off.

~ Peter Heller

Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

~ Mary Mcleod Bethune

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

~ Reinhold Niebuhr

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

~ Paul Tillich

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.

~ Charles Spurgeon

Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.

~ Dan Brown

I write about everything, but I just - how faith filters through all that and colors your opinion of other people and life and all that.

~ Amy Grant

The good news of suffering is that it brings us to the end of ourselves - a purpose it has certainly served in my life. It brings us to the place of honesty, which is the place of desperation, which is the place of faith, which is the place of freedom.

~ Tullian Tchividjian

Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.

~ Franz Liszt

A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences.

~ Whittaker Chambers

In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.

~ Madeleine L'engle

There were periods of my life when a lot of people didn't believe in me. I still had faith in myself. I really had to ask myself life questions. Where do I see myself in five years? Create a ladder for yourself, and walk up the steps. Climb that ladder.

~ Fergie

In the pain, the agony, and the heroic endeavors of life, we pass through a refiner's fire, and the insignificant and the unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross and make our faith bright, intact, and strong.

~ James E. Faust

There are two 'faiths' which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these two faiths should exist side by side: the first belongs to one's inner life, the second to one's life in society.

~ Maria Montessori

You need to develop, somehow, a huge amount of faith and confidence in yourself, because there's a lot of rejection throughout an actor's life and you have to believe in yourself more than anyone else.

~ Stephen Collins

I, for one, am profoundly grateful to feel the hand of God at work in my life. But at the beginning and end of the day, when my default setting is to show kindness and love to others, I never regret it. And to me, that is what faith is all about.

~ Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick

Faith has a role to play in life. It is not related to success. It is the other way round. Success is related to faith. Faith comes first.

~ Andrea Bocelli

My faith teaches that life is sacred. That's why I personally oppose the death penalty. But I take my oath of office seriously, and I'll enforce the death penalty... because it's the law.

~ Tim Kaine