The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic, something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom--as something they thought was almost a necessity. It's as if at that moment the iron entered their soul that moment created the resilience that leaders need.
– Warren Bennis
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything -- or nothing.
– Lady Nancy Astor
The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
– Andre Malraux
The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.
– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is sort of a Divine accident.
– Horace Walpole
The sands are number'd that make up my life.
– William Shakespeare
The unexamined life is not worth living.
– Socrates
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman
– Woody Allen
There is only one success ... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.
– Christopher Darlington Morley
Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.
– Henry James
Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
– R. I. Fitzhenry
We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.
– Tim McGraw
Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. We did not weave the web of life We are merely a strand in it. What we do with the web, we do to ourselves...
– Chief Seattle
When you whisper, I sink, and when you kiss me, I fly. I let you pull me in any direction you choose. My very body was brought down to your will, and I continue to this day and will continue to the end of my life. Why? Because I love you. I love everything you do to me, not pysically but emotionally.
– Damion Core
Three things ruin a man power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now.
– Harry S Truman
If you give a man a fish, he will have a single meal. If you teach him how to fish, he will eat all his life.
– Kwan-Tzu
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.
– Eric Hoffer
Life is pain, highness Anyone who says differently is selling something.
– William Goldman
There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
– Carl Gustav Jung
Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive.
– Warren Miller
I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.
– Hillary Rodham Clinton
May you live all the days of your life.
– Jonathan Swift
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
– Zig Ziglar
I only regret that I have one life to lose for my country.
– Nathan Hale
As soon as there is life there is danger.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
