Life Quotes

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

~ Tony Robbins

The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.

~ Henri Nouwen

I am a Christian person, and I do love the Lord, and I feel no matter who you are, what you believe, how you live your life, it's not my place to judge. I don't have that power. I don't want that power. It's my place to love and to show God's love to other people, even if they don't live a life like I live.

~ Carrie Underwood

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

~ Harry Emerson Fosdick

There is trust in there being a Spirit who loves me and wants me to have love in my life. I trust in this higher power, it is what keeps me moving forward no matter what happens.

~ Kenny Loggins

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

~ Booker T. Washington

Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.

~ Oprah Winfrey

I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessings I've had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy works.

~ Ken Blanchard

By giving professors jobs for life, universities create a feeling of unanswerable power among too many. Tenured professors who are uninterested in serving the student body are less likely to respond favorably to criticism, and are more likely to feel the freedom to intimidate or harass those with opposing viewpoints.

~ Ben Shapiro

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.

~ Brigham Young

My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.

~ Kenny Loggins

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

~ Pope Francis

What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life?

~ Jules Verne

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

~ Aldous Huxley

For most people, an hour a day playing our favorite games will power up our ability to engage whole-heartedly with difficult challenges, strengthen our relationships with the people we care about most - while still letting us notice when it's time to stop playing in virtual worlds and bring our gamer strengths back to real life.

~ Jane Mcgonigal

Our grandkids will lead the lives of the gods of mythology. Zeus could think and move objects around. We'll have that power. Venus had a perfect, timeless body. We'll have that, too. Pegasus was a flying horse. We'll be able to modify life in the future.

~ Michio Kaku

For me, love is not about froufrou New Age-ism. It's about a way of living and honoring the interconnectedness of life and accepting our responsibility and our power to change the world for the better.

~ Julia Butterfly Hill

I believe in the healing power of the arts, and whenever anyone can bring art into anyone's life, it's a special thing.

~ Austin Nichols

It seems as if, for every dragon head that is lopped off, two more terrible appear. Seems so. But in truth, Life is gaining all the while. Brute force, such power as there seems to be in things, cannot stand against ideas which are eternal.

~ Edward Everett Hale

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

~ Erich Fromm

Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master.

~ Walter Rauschenbusch

Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.

~ José Martí

The experience of being in the Army changed my whole life; I never believed that an organization such as ours could ever go to war, leave alone win it. It was, as Yeats remarked of the Easter Rising, 'A terrible beauty.'

~ Spike Milligan

I have always wanted a bunny and I'll always have a rabbit the rest of my life.

~ Amy Sedaris

The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus - His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection.

~ Kenneth Scott Latourette

During my life I have heard many sermons on the Resurrection. I can recite the events of that first Easter Sunday. I have marked in my scriptures passages regarding the Resurrection.

~ Joseph B. Wirthlin

Easter is not limited to the passion and death of Christ; it also includes the dismal tragedy of life unlived by the many, and all the loss of passion and truth that goes with it.

~ Michael Leunig

People come together with their families to celebrate Easter. What better way to celebrate than to spend a few hours going on the journey of Christ's life.

~ Roma Downey

And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present.

~ John Guare

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

~ Paulo Coelho

America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

~ George W. Bush

If you go around being afraid, you're never going to enjoy life. You have only one chance, so you've got to have fun.

~ Lindsey Vonn

First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.

~ Oksana Baiul

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

~ Dale Carnegie

My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know what real liberty means. And if I could bring that about today by giving up my life, I would do it gladly.

~ Pancho Villa

Coffee has always been a significant part of my life. For me, it's a chance to start my day and gather my thoughts - it's fuel for my creative process.

~ Connor Franta

Like everyone else in this world, I have had struggles. There's disappointment and obstacles in everybody's life. I feel like I was writing 'Second Chance' not just for myself, but also for the people who have struggled.

~ El Debarge

If you don't take the chance to live life, what can you say at the end of it?

~ Naveen Andrews

Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.

~ Gary Gygax

The great thing about getting older is that you get a chance to tell the people in your life who matter what they mean to you.

~ Mike Love