The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

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.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn’t always know she had.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world?

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you – until you get your revenge.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

What we live by we die by.

Whoever won’t fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

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

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

We all want to win more, but it’s all about being blessed and embracing your blessings. We have life.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.