Life Quotes

Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.

~ Will Smith

I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.

~ Dean Kamen

We should all have the opportunity to at least get a basic education and feel that you are worthy of something in life.

~ Jesse Williams

Like everywhere in the world, people of the Middle East aspire to liberty and justice. They wish to have a better life and a decent education for their children.

~ Ahmed Zewail

Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.

~ Brad Henry

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

~ Robert Frost

To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.

~ Munshi Premchand

A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.

~ Ann Plato

A big part of my life is music education because it changed my life - but arts, academics and athletics should all be equally treated in the school.

~ Flea

Everything that makes man's life worthwhile - family, work, education, a place to rear one's children and a place to rest one's head - all this depends on the decisions of government; all can be swept away by a government which does not heed the demands of its people, and I mean all of its people.

~ Robert Kennedy

In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.

~ Earl Warren

Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college.

~ Yolanda Adams

I find the education I got from living in Derby and being streetwise and knowing the people that I know, the lessons that I had to learn growing up, have set me in good stead for this kind of working life.

~ Jack O'connell

I've always believed in the importance of education and continuing to learn throughout every stage of life.

~ Muhtar Kent

I went to Catholic school throughout my whole academic life. In fact, my children - my husband and I and our children in my own family now have over 100 years of Catholic education among us.

~ Nancy Pelosi

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Oprah Winfrey's global influence is unparalleled. Not only has her generosity and firm belief that education is the key to a better life benefited countless women and children around the world, but her example has also inspired millions of people to give back in ways big and small.

~ Eli Broad

Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

~ Gustave Flaubert

Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.

~ Havelock Ellis

My mission in life is to assist women in social and political empowerment through business and education.

~ Joyce Banda

I decided to study special education and fell in love with working with individuals with autism. That's what I planned to do with my life.

~ Clay Aiken

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

~ Barry Commoner

I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.

~ Barbara Walters

The goal, I think, of American education, for decades, and across many, many scholars, was basically to teach people broad lessons in how to live life, how to engage life, how to essentially be effective citizens and effective people.

~ James Heckman

Even when life challenges us, it's a gift beyond all measure.

~ Parker Palmer

I had a very good sexual education. My mother was very advanced in that regard. She conveyed to me the sense of reverence and wonder about my body and the powers of my sexuality not only to give life, but also to be a whole person and to enjoy pleasure. It was put to me as an almost holy act.

~ Gioconda Belli

For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life.

~ Arthur Capper

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

~ John Wooden

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

~ Socrates

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

~ Elizabeth Kenny

But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.

~ Sylvia Plath

In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little bit too far, and who says you have to stop there, and what's behind the next door. Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get too far down in the quicksand.

~ Trent Reznor

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

~ Ben Hogan

The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.

~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

~ Reinhold Niebuhr

I'm married. My wife, Stella - a beautiful woman. She's brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

~ Anthony Hopkins

When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom.

~ Shakti Gawain

When you get older, you learn certain life lessons. You apply that wisdom, and suddenly you say, 'Hey, I've got a new lease on this thing. So let's go.'

~ Robert Redford

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

~ John D. Rockefeller

Young people, you need the wisdom of age, just as some of us older ones need your enthusiasm for life.

~ Ezra Taft Benson