Quotes on Life

I think a role model is a mentor - someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.