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Famous Quotes
"Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it."
More quotes about Life
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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
Robert Frost on Life -
"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."
Buddha on Life -
"Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too."
Will Smith on Life -
"Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it."
Sai Baba on Life -
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
George Bernard Shaw on Life
More quotes by Samuel Smiles
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"Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step."
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"Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only."
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"The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom."
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"We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery."
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"It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done."