Life Principles Quotes

Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing. ~ George Bernard Shaw

I was excited to do something, even if I didn't know what it was. I think you need that feeling - that excitement, that fire - to make your dreams a reality. (p.59) ~ Injap Sia

To inspire is to teach life principles in the spirit of Love. ~ Delma Pryce

The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed. ~ Bill Vaughan

The very nature and character of God is seen all throughout His created universe." Job remarked, "But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
Job 12:7-8 ~ Institute In Basic Life Principles

Life is predictable for it is based on fixed laws and principles. ~ Sunday Adelaja

It's a lot more interesting to learn and discover real-life principles when they are revealed in the form of a story. ~ Andy Andrews

The Christian life from start to finish is based upon this principle of utter dependence upon the Lord Jesus. ~ Watchman Nee

Your thoughts are powerful and hold the power of life and death. Your thoughts trigger your emotions. Learn to tame your thoughts...do not let your thoughts tame you. Learn to tame your emotions...do not let your emotions tame you ~ Kemi Sogunle

One of my life principles is that if something isn't working, doing something harder isn't necessarily going to produce the same result. ~ Angus King

To know the life principles of the kingdom is to humbly seek them ~ Sunday Adelaja

Compromising your principles, even one time, can be a terrible mistake. ~ Frank Sonnenberg

The first principle of life is love. The second principle is kindness. The third principle is compassion. The fourth principle is trust. The firth principle is integrity. ~ Debasish Mridha

In effective personal leadership, visualization and affirmation techniques emerge naturally out of a foundation of well thought through purposes and principles that become the center of a person's life. ~ Stephen Covey

It is not a vice or a show of weakness when you live by the principle of delay gratification. ~ Sunday Adelaja

The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be. ~ Raymond Charles Barker

Don't be afraid if your idea is crazy, because good things come from crazy ideas. (p. 96) ~ Injap Sia

"Because there has been no one to stop me" has been one of the principles of my life. ~ Joyce Carol Oates

Modern life cannot be constructed on ... physically strenuous principles. A great deal of work is sedentary, and most manual work exercises only a few specialized muscles. ~ Bertrand Russell

Principles are concepts that can be applied over and over again in similar circumstances as distinct from narrow answers to specific questions. Every game has principles that successful players master to achieve winning results. So does life. Principles are ways of successfully dealing with the laws of nature or the laws of life. Those who understand more of them and understand them well know how to interact with the world more effectively than those who know fewer of them or know them less well. ~ Ray Dalio

Old cranks have practiced all their lives, just as old saints have likewise practiced all their lives. They just practiced different life principles. ~ John Powell

You can't do wrong right, but you can do right wrong. ~ Bohdi Sanders

For this knowledge of right living, we have sought a new name ... As theology is the science of religious life, and biology the science of [physical] life ... so let Oekology be henceforth the science of [our] normal lives ... the worthiest of all the applied sciences which teaches the principles on which to found ... healthy ... and happy life. ~ Ellen Swallow Richards

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. ~ Confucius

To be a first partaker is to understand the principles needed ~ Sunday Adelaja

I'm caught between trying to live my life, and trying to run from it. ~ Stephen Chbosky

The most important thing in life will always be family. The people right here, right now. ~ Vin Diesel

Maybe that's what being alive is about: so we can track down those movments that are dying. ~ Muriel Barbery

... in daily speech, where we don't stop to consider every word, we all use phrases like "the ordinary world," "ordinary life," "the ordinary course of events" ... But in the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone's existence in this world. ~ Wisława Szymborska

We were full of dreams and it was with impatient hearts that we imagined the joys and adventures life held in store for us. ~ Gaël Faye

What was a life anyway? An accumulation of small shelves of incident. ~ Colum McCann

Sad is one of those words that has given up its life for our country, it's been a martyr for the American dream, it's been neutralized, co-opted by our culture to suggest a tinge of discomfort that lasts the time it takes for this and then for that to happen, the time it takes to change a channel. But sadness is real because once it meant something real. It meant dignified, grave; it meant trustworthy; it meant exceptionally bad, deplorable, shameful; it meant massive, weighty, forming a compact body; it meant falling heavily; and it meant of a color: dark. It meant dark in color, to darken. It meant me. I felt sad. ~ Claudia Rankine

I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice. ~ Mignon McLaughlin

The greatest excuse you must have is the excuse to do your best to the very best and in a distinctive manner ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Many people are in fact living with a diminished sense of meaning, and they struggle to fill the void within them by frantically pursuing power, money, pleasure, thrills, mind-altered states, or the latest psychic fad. Yet these compulsive cravings only serve to reveal the lack of purpose in their lives, poor substitutes for a life built around authentic purpose and genuine meaning. ~ John Chaffee

The simple things in life make me very happy. ~ Samantha Fox

Day, the champion of the people, the one who can't bear to see those around him suffer on his behalf, who would gladly give his life for those he loves. ~ Marie Lu

Sadhana is towards creating a sense of inner fulfillment, where there is no need to lean on anyone anymore. ~ Jaggi Vasudev

Once I was in L.A., I realized anyone could act. Why not give it a shot? I started going to a ton of acting classes, and I found I had a real passion for it, probably the biggest passion I've ever had in my whole life. ~ Kellan Lutz

It's so weird how a person can be a normal part of your everyday life, and then just disappear. And when they do, you realize that some of those everyday things go with them. Like the smell of food cooking. ~ Jason Reynolds

I finally knew ... why Christ's prayer in the garden could not be granted. He had been seeded and birthed into human flesh. He was one of us. Once He had become mortal, He could not become immortal except by dying. That He prayed the prayer at all showed how human He was. That He knew it could not be granted showed his divinity; that He prayed it anyhow showed His mortality, His mortal love of life that His death made immortal. ~ Wendell Berry

You digest and absorb your life by turning it into stories,' he says, 'the same way this theater seems to digest people.' With one hand, he points to a carpet stain, this dark stain sticky and growing mold, branched with arms and legs.
Other events - the ones you can't digest - they poison you. Those worst parts of your life, those moments you can't talk about, they rot you from the inside out. Until you're Cassandra's wet shadow on the ground. Sunk in your own yellow protein mud.
But the stories that you can digest, that you can tell - you can take control of those past moments. You can shape them, craft them. Master them. And use them to your own good. Those are stories as important as food. Those are stories you can use to make people laugh or cry or sick. Or scared. To make people feel the way you felt. To help exhaust that past moment for them and for you. Until that moment is dead.
Consumed. Digested. Absorbed. ~ Chuck Palahniuk

What happens to you does not matter; what you become through those experiences is all that is significant. This is the true meaning of life." -- author unknown, ~ Erin Arvedlund

Most of us have compromised with life. Those who fight for what they want will always thrill us. ~ Vivien Leigh

There wasn't a bit of innocence or purity in him. He was sinful and cynical. Unapologetic. He cared nothing for the world. He just ate its fruits and roamed its wilds and didn't need anyone. ~ Joanna Chambers

To laugh is to risk appearing a fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out to another is to risk involvement.
To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To hope is to risk pain.
To try is to risk failure.
But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. ~ William Arthur Ward

If by the time we're sixty we haven't learned what a knot of paradox and contradiction life is, and how exquisitely the good and the bad are mingled in every action we take, and what a compromising hostess Our Lady of Truth is, we haven't grown old to much purpose. ~ John Cowper Powys

Love is for life; life is for love. ~ Debasish Mridha

When energy is profoundly dissipated, the ability to think is clearly eroded, and the capacity to actively engage in the efforts and pleasures of life is fundamentally altered, then depression becomes an illness rather than a temporary or existential state. ~ Kay Redfield Jamison

It is this perfect accuracy, this lack of play, of variety, that makes the machine-made article so lifeless. Wherever there is life there is variety, and the substitution of the machine-made for the hand-made article has impoverished the world to a greater extent than we are probably yet aware of. Whereas formerly, before the advent of machinery, the commonest article you could pick up had a life and warmth which gave it individual interest, now everything is turned out to such a perfection of deadness that one is driven to pick up and collect, in sheer desperation, the commonest rubbish still surviving from the earlier period. ~ Harold Speed

We should know that Allah has created us to live an eternal life with no death, a life of pride and ease with no humiliation, a life of security with no fear, a life of richness with no poverty, a life of joy with no pain, a life of perfection with no flaws. Allah is testing us in this world with a life that will end in death, a life of pride that is accompanied by humiliation and degradation, a life that is tainted by fear, where joy and ease are mixed with sorrow and pain. ~ Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

I ain't sayin it ain't all right to study the Bible. You got to study the Bible to know the rules of life. But I notice a lotta folks doin more lookin at the Bible than doin what it says. ~ Ron Hall

At the end, one didn't remember life as a whole but as just a string of moments. ~ David Levien

We don't stop hiking because we grow old - we grow old because we stop hiking ~ Finis Mitchell

My Son, thou art never secure in this life, but thy spiritual armour will always be needful for thee as long as thou livest. Thou dwellest among foes, and art attacked on the right hand and on the left. If therefore thou use not on all sides the shield of patience, thou wilt not remain long unwounded. Above all, if thou keep not thy heart fixed upon Me with steadfast purpose to bear all things for My sake, thou shalt not be able to bear the fierceness of the attack, nor to attain to the victory of the blessed. Therefore must thou struggle bravely all thy life through, and put forth a strong hand against those things which oppose thee. For to him that overcometh is the hidden manna given,(1) but great misery is reserved for the slothful. ~ Thomas A Kempis

Sometimes a Change in LIfe can Bring Us Happiness. ~ Jan Jansen

The lack of women directors is a sad fact of life. Kathryn Bigelow's thrilling Best Director win may help turn things around. ~ Lynda Obst

There's not much a newspaper reporter can do about dead men. But a newspaper reporter and a cop and a judge can deliver some justice. That's why the founding fathers wrote it up the way they did, I suppose. Life. Liberty. Pursuit of happiness. Everyone is entitled to those things. ~ Charlie LeDuff