I don’t expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

I will never retire unless I have to.

There’s place and means for every man alive.

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren’t able to live in the place you called home.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Our work is never over.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

I’ve never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn’t feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you’ve got to work as hard as them.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around.

I think any life can be interesting, any surroundings can be interesting. I don’t think I could have been so brave if I had been living in a town, competing with people on what can be called a generally higher cultural level.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

There’s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

Children make your life important.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

We come bulletproof in Ireland. We’re reared tough, and we fight.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Death is just life’s next big adventure.

Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you’re gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It’s yours. Seize your space.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

This industry has been really good to me. It’s been a great life. I’m not through yet. I’m ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

There’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.

The only length of life that seems to satisfy the longings of the human heart is life everlasting.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help the team win. I think you have to take the good with the bad.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

We live in a bewildering world.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one’s life.

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It’s when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.