Life Quotes - Page 414

Here's a rule of life: You don't get to pick what bad things happen to you

You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you'll win, no matter what the outcome.

From tonight onwards, take complete control of your life. Decide, once and for all, to be the master of your fate. Run your own race. Discover your calling and you will start to experience the ecstasy of an inspired life.

I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life.

Every problem has a limited life span.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime.

You don't want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That's what I'm missing right now.

There's more to life than success, and if you can try to be more well-rounded, you'll be able to enjoy your success more. It won't own you or control you.

The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose.

When you build bridges you can keep crossing them.

Life's too short. If you're passionate - stand up.

Your life is a treasure and you are so much more than you know.

When the status and power of women is greater so also is the nation’s general quality of life; when they are lower, so is the quality of life for all.

Life doesn't just happen to you; you receive everything in your life based on what you've given.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Every aspect of personal life is radically affected by the quality of general life, and yet the general life is seen at its most important in completely personal terms.

Why should I be worried about dying? It's not going to happen in my lifetime!

You take five fingers. Individually, I can pin any one of them, but if I pin them together (makes a fist), it's damn near impossible to turn this around.

I didn't like where I once was, so I promised myself I wouldn't be back there.

I believe that one of the best ways of getting at truth is reflecting with others who have opposing views and who share your interest in finding the truth rather than being proven right

For every mistake that you learn from you will save thousands of similar mistakes in the future, so if you treat mistakes as learning opportunities that yield rapid improvements you should be excited by them. But if you treat them as bad things, you will make yourself and others miserable, and you won't grow.

Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.

When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you.