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- If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
- A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
- Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
- Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
- Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
- Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry.
- John Lancaster Spalding
- Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
- Dinah Shore (1917 - 1994)
- The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.
- Henry L. Stimson (1867 - 1950)
- Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), 'Poor Richard's Almanack,' June 1746
- Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act I
- Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.
- Pindar (522 BC - 443 BC), 518-438 B.C.
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