Life Quotes

A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.

~ Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

~ Haruki Murakami

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

~ Wayne Dyer

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.

~ Robert Foster Bennett

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

~ Fernando Flores

The communitarians may say you've been enjoying too much individual freedom, and that you must give up some of that for the benefit of the community. But they really mean that they want more power over your life - to force you to subsidize, obey and conform to their choices.

~ Harry Browne

I think I have a right to live my life the way I like.

~ Malala Yousafzai

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

~ Aldous Huxley

All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility.

~ Steven Hatfill

It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.

~ Bryant H. Mcgill

But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.

~ Anita Roddick

There aren't many people who really put their life on the line for human freedom.

~ Niall Ferguson

In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.

~ Langston Hughes

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

~ Simone De Beauvoir

The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle.

~ Nelson Mandela

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

~ Mahatma Gandhi

I've got my interests and my life experiences as I'm putting lyrics together. And if you start looking at patterns, you start thinking, 'Well, what am I really singing about here?' A lot of it seems to be a battle for some freedom against oppressive forces. That seems to be a theme in a lot of the albums I've done.

~ Matt Bellamy

I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me and so when I hit the stage I just sensed freedom. I sensed, 'Here's a place that I can have all the experiences of life and not feel uncomfortable about it.'

~ Nick Nolte

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

~ Bertrand Russell

The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

Freedom is control in your own life.

~ Willie Nelson

I want to give myself the freedom not to have to be projecting my whole life ahead.

~ Robert Downey

It's all very well for us to sit here in the West with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's immoral to violate the sovereignty of another state. But if the effect of that is to bring people in that country economic and political freedom, to raise their standard of living, to increase their life expectancy, then don't rule it out.

~ Niall Ferguson

I hear music that comes out of need, out of grief, sorrow, suffering and out of overcoming these things, as well. That journey to freedom still goes on today. It's an incremental change, the culmination of many events in your own life and the lives of your children and grandchildren.

~ Kathleen Battle

And I have been able to give freedom and life which was acknowledged in the ecstasy of walking hand in hand across the most beautiful bridge of the world, the cables enclosing us and pulling us upward in such a dance as I have never walked and never can walk with another.

~ Hart Crane

I didn't come to Washington to fight against my Republican colleagues, or even against my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. I came to Washington to fight for the values that make our country unique - for the economic freedom that gives life to the American Dream.

~ David Schweikert

My dad's the one who's always been there; he's my hero, you could say. Even when he was working, he'd do anything for me. He's been the biggest influence in my life.

~ Gareth Bale

Everything I do in my life I do to make my mum and dad proud. I want to carry on in my dad's footsteps and make sure that his legacy lives on forever.

~ Bindi Irwin

I think there's nothing better than laughing in life, so that's nice, to be thought of as someone who can make someone laugh. It's 'cause I think life is hard. You know, my dad was a really silly man. A great Irish silly man. And that's fine.

~ Joan Cusack

Simple. Pared down. Timeless. The ties were never too thick or too thin; the pants were never too flared or too skinny. In my life with Dad, he wore Western apparel because we went riding - jeans, cowboy boots, the turquoise belt buckle. But it was all very simple, and that classic look is very 'Ralph Lauren.'

~ Jennifer Grant

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

~ Gloria Swanson

I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.

~ Halle Berry

I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.

~ Chief Joseph

I think, if I had a dad, I would have went the normal college route. I'm so stoked my life panned out how it was.

~ Tyler

I was a pitcher, and my dad played in college. The hardest day of my life was telling him I was going to quit to focus more on golf. But with golf, I felt like the game can't be perfected, and that motivated me.

~ Jordan Spieth

I got stuck up a tree when I was about seven, and my dad had to come and get the ladder to get me down. I loved to climb all the way up to the top. I must have been a koala in my past life.

~ Miranda Kerr

My dad always taught me never to give up in my mind. You can never really beat me. It sounds ridiculous, but I will always come back for you. You can't beat someone who never gives up. I could lose 100 times to you, but I will always get you. I will die trying. This applies not only to swimming but to my life as well.

~ Chad Le Clos

My mum and dad aren't together, but she plays a massive part in my life. We have deep conversations: I tell her where I need support, where I feel she's lacking, and I support her with whatever she needs. I understand she won't be here forever, and I want no regrets.

~ Anthony Joshua

My Dad, a small-town lawyer, was also named Paul. Until we lost him when I was 16, he was a gentle presence in my life. I like to think he'd be proud of me and my sister and brothers, because I'm sure proud of him and of where I come from, Janesville, Wisconsin.

~ Paul Ryan