Quotes about life

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

Arthur Ashe

Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Religion and religion alone is the life of India, and when that goes India will die, in spite of politics, in spite of social reforms, in spite of Kubera’s wealth poured upon the head of every one of her children.

Swami Vivekananda

Whatever one’s religion in his private life may be, for the officeholder, nothing takes precedence over his oath to uphold the Constitution and all its parts – including the First Amendment and the strict separation of church and state.

John F. Kennedy

There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.

Theodore Roosevelt

You can live a good life no matter what’s happened to you. And so I don’t know. I know there is condemnation, but I don’t feel that’s my place.

Joel Osteen

The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof of vice.

Samuel Smiles

To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that is civilization in the arts. Shakespeare is the chief modern example of this supreme faculty of mankind.

George Edward Woodberry

I’ve got a pretty wide range of stuff that I’m interested in in life. But producing it gives me a lot more time at home to spend with my family as opposed to being away on location shooting nights for months at a time.

Mark Wahlberg

Money is a powerful force. don’t use it against you. If your self-discipline and financial intelligence are low, money will run over you. It will be smarter than you to take over your life.

Robert Kiyosaki