quotes about life
“Work and life should never be kept separate, because what you do should be your life's work.”
Feb 5 2020
– Yuriy Sklyar is a Ukrainian-born, Canadian generalist, designer, maker, businessman and author currently residing in San Francisco Bay, California.
“I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.”
Sep 6 2018
– Unknown. This, and variants of it, appear to have been published as an anonymous proverb at least as early as 1859, when the quote appeared in Household Words : A Weekly Journal.
“If you can dream it, you can do it.”
Aug 27 2018
– Walt Disney, an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist.
“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.”
Aug 13 2018
– St. Jerome was a priest, confessor, theologian, and historian.
“The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem.”
Jul 19 2018
– Captain Jack Sparrow is a fictional character in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series. The character was created by screenwriters Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, and is portrayed by Johnny Depp.
“The moment you accept responsibility for everything in your life is the moment you gain the power to change anything in your life.”
Jul 11 2018
– Hal Elrod is one of the highest rated keynote speakers in America, and an author of one of the highest rated, best-selling books in the world, The Miracle Morning—which has been translated into 27 languages.
“Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.”
Jul 2 2018
– Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich, better known under his pen name Sholem Aleichem, was a leading Yiddish author and playwright. The musical based on his stories about Tevye the Dairyman, was the first commercially successful English-language stage production about Jewish life in Eastern Europe. The Hebrew phrase "shalom aleichem" literally means "peace be upon you", and is a greeting in traditional Hebrew and Yiddish.
“The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.”
Jun 17 2018
– David Ogilvy David Mackenzie Ogilvy was an advertising tycoon, founder of Ogilvy & Mather, and known as the father of advertising.
“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didnt.”
Jun 14 2018
– Erica Jong is an American novelist, satirist, and poet, known particularly for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying.