Quotes tagged with 'life'

The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see.
—Alexandra K. Trenfor education life

It’s better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you are an idiot rather than open it and remove all doubt.
—Mark Twain life

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
—Mark Twain life

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.
—Mark Twain life

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
—Mark Twain life

I was educated once - it took me years to get over it.
—Mark Twain education life

Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than those you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from safe harbor. Catch the wind in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
—Mark Twain life

Perhaps we’ve never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon Earth and decided there’s no sign of intelligent life.
—Neil Degrasse Tyson life space

If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.
—Lao Tzu life

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
—Vincent Van Gogh life sailing

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
—Vincent Van Gogh life

Normality is a paved road. It's comfortable to walk on but no flowers grow on it.
—Vincent Van Gogh life

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.
—Kurt Vonnegut life

Dyin’ ain’t much of a livin’, boy.
—Josey Wales / The Outlaw life

A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because her trust is not on the branch but on it's own wings.
—Denzel Washington life

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
—Booker T. Washington life

A lie doesn’t become truth, wrong doesn’t become right, and evil doesn’t become good, just because it’s accepted by a majority.
—Booker T. Washington government life

Denunciatory rhetoric is so much easier and cheaper than good works, and proves a popular temptation. Yet it is it far better to light the candle than to curse the darkness.
—William L. Watkinson / Reverend life

You only live once but, if you do it right, once is enough.
—Mae West life

There are more sharks on the land than in the sea.
—Neil Wheatley life sailing