Life Quotes

My dad always said there's four phases in an actor/director's life. There's 'Mario Who?' There's 'Get me Mario!' 'Get me a young Mario,' and 'Mario Who?'

~ Mario Van Peebles

My dad has worked so hard his whole life. He doesn't deserve to see his daughters going out embarrassing themselves and flashing their knickers. I want to make my parents proud.

~ Petra Stunt

I grew up with lacrosse in my life because my dad played lacrosse all throughout college, so I grew up with the gear in my house - like the sticks, the helmet.

~ Tyler Posey

I'm lucky to have my dad in my life. He's very brilliant, I think he's really a smart man, and he's a kind guy.

~ Cody Horn

I knew Sinatra for 38 years. He was like my father. Frank Sinatra was my 'dad.' He treated me like his son. He gave me the best advice about singing, about this and that... He was a very sensitive man, very astute, one of the sharpest men that I ever met in my life.

~ Trini Lopez

As my dad said, you have an obligation to leave the world better than how you found it. And he also reminded us to be givers in this life, and not takers.

~ Phil Crane

I always thought that family was the most important thing in life, and no matter what I do, whether being a chef or an actor or a dancer, being a dad is what I do best.

~ David Burtka

People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we leave them.

~ John Kasich

Sustainability, ensuring the future of life on Earth, is an infinite game, the endless expression of generosity on behalf of all.

~ Paul Hawken

Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.

~ Dalai Lama

You have to focus on the future and know that you can succeed in life, and you have to keep working hard.

~ Dele Alli

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

~ George Burns

I'm living my future as long as you're living in the present and realize how beautiful life is.

~ Dhani Jones

I take all of my life lessons, which some people might call 'mistakes,' and apply them to my future so that I keep growing.

~ Kimberly Caldwell

The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now.

~ Henri Nouwen

Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.

~ Sitting Bull

For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make.

~ Edward Kennedy

We deal here with the right of all of our children, whatever their race, to an equal start in life and to an equal opportunity to reach their full potential as citizens. Those children who have been denied that right in the past deserve better than to see fences thrown up to deny them that right in the future.

~ Thurgood Marshall

Life insurance became popular only when insurance companies stopped emphasizing it as a good investment and sold it instead as a symbolic commitment by fathers to the future well-being of their families.

~ James Surowiecki

Our greatest motivation in life comes from not knowing the future.

~ Thomas Frey

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

~ Wayne Dyer

Don't be intimidated by people who seem to be experts. Hear their points of view and get their judgements. But at the end of day, you've got to make a judgement because it's not their life that's going to be affected so much as your future.

~ Robert Dallek

My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball.

~ David Duchovny

The future of the world belongs to the youth of the world, and it is from the youth and not from the old that the fire of life will warm and enlighten the world. It is your privilege to breathe the breath of life into the dry bones of many around you.

~ Tom Mann

I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.

~ Lou Reed

I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.

~ Mike Tyson

When you realize the value of all life, you dwell on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.

~ Dian Fossey

Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary.

~ Peter Agre

Live life to the fullest, for the future is scarce.

~ Nick Carter

I've got a new life now, a new future, there's a lot more to Lennox Lewis than just being a boxer.

~ Lennox Lewis

To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

~ Robert M. Pirsig

In the future, I can imagine that we will genetically modify ourselves using the genes that have doubled our life span since we were chimpanzees.

~ Michio Kaku

You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that's great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future.

~ Taylor Swift

Life passes us by if all we do is focus on the future. Being present, for the present, is really what is important.

~ Brandon Jenner

The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.

~ Gustav Mahler

When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.

~ Dian Fossey

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

~ Antoine Rivarol

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

~ José Ortega Y Gasset

A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far.

~ Jon Meacham