Quotes on Life

Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.

There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.

In the game of life, before you get anything out, you must put something in!

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

All of us are mentors. You're mentors right here and now. And one of the things I've always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience.

To people like me, educated in post-war Britain, free speech has been a firm premise of the British way of life.

I don't think there's anything they can say about me that I haven't said about myself already. And I would be an absolute total liar, and my fans would not respect me, if I said that my life and my marriage are perfect. But we absolutely love each other; we have fun together - it's great.

Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Work regular hours.

Government is a true religion: it has its dogmas, its mysteries, its priests. To submit it to the individual discussion is to destroy it; it is given life only through the national mind, that is to say, by political faith, which is a creed.

Even though many couples are choosing to marry later in life, our laws haven't been updated to address dating partner abuse.

I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn't mean I don't get frustrated in my life. My way of dealing with frustration is to shut down and to think and speak logically.

What I learned from Mel Brooks was audacity - in performance as in life. Maybe you go too far, but try it.

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life.

The passage of time has not altered the capacity of the Redeemer to change lives.

In mystical traditions, it is one's own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric. The secret isn't that you're not being told. The secret is that you're not able to hear.

I had become wealthy as an art dealer, but my life was never rich until I began serving in a mission and began being blessed by those that were basically hopeless. To see them have hope was the biggest blessing in my life.

The quality of life is more important than life itself.