Life Quotes

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

Life doesn’t give you all the practice races you need.

And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.