George Halas

“Many people flounder about in life because they have no purpose. Before it is possible to achieve anything, an objective must be set”. –George Halas

Richard Crashaw

“Life that dares send A challenge to his end, And when it comes, say, Welcome, friend!” — Richard Crashaw

Louis Agassiz

“The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common life of the world”. –Louis Agassiz

George Steinbrenner

“Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next”. –George Steinbrenner

Lucian

“Criticism is twofold: that which teaches us what we are to choose, and that which teaches us what to avoid”. –Lucian

Henry Liddon

“The life of man is made up of action and endurance; and life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance”. –Henry Liddon

Julian Jaynes

“What is the meaning of life? This question has no answer except in the history of how it came to be asked. There is no answer because words have meaning, not life or persons or the universe itself”. –Julian Jaynes

Alfred Austin

“Is life worth living? Yes, so long As there is wrong to right”. –Alfred Austin

Charles Péguy

“The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful to truth must make himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable renascent errors”. –Charles Péguy

eden ahbez

“Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see, it’s not an issue of black and white, it’s an issue of Lovers and Haters”. –eden ahbez

Sholem Aleichem

“Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor”. –Sholem Aleichem

Pythagoras

“The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil”. –Pythagoras

Bill Mauldin

“Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo”. –Bill Mauldin

Stephen Leacock

“I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so”. –Stephen Leacock

Walter Lippmann

“A State is absolute in the sense which I have in mind when it claims the right to a monopoly of all the force within the community, to make war, to make peace, to conscript life, to tax, to establish and dis-establish property, to define crime, to punish disobedience, to control education, to supervise the family, to regulate habits, and to censor opinions. The modern State claims all of these powers, and, in the matter of theory, there is no real difference in the size of the claim between communists, fascists, and democrats”. –Walter Lippmann

Francis Quarles

“Even such is man, whose glory lends His life a blaze or two, and ends”. –Francis Quarles

George Washington

“Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life”. –George Washington

Robert Capa

“In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on”. –Robert Capa

Gavrilo Princip

“There is no need to carry me to another prison. My life is already ebbing away. I suggest that you nail me to a cross and burn me alive. My flaming body will be a torch to illuminate my people on their path to freedom”. –Gavrilo Princip

Albert Ellis

“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny”. –Albert Ellis

J.D. Salinger

“The religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world”. –J.D. Salinger

Auguste Comte

“The dead governs the living”. –Auguste Comte

Jim Valvano

“How do you go from where you are to where you want to be? …I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it”. –Jim Valvano

Booker T. Washington

“I am afraid that there is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don’t want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public”. –Booker T. Washington

Hank Williams

“No matter how I struggle and strive, I’ll never get out of this world alive”. –Hank Williams

H.G. Wells

“A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own”. –H.G. Wells

Sid Vicious

“I’ll probably die by the time I reach 25, but I’ll have lived the way I wanted to”. –Sid Vicious

Grandma Moses

“Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be”. –Grandma Moses

Calvin Coolidge

“I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who bear the cost of the Government. Every dollar that we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much the more meager”. –Calvin Coolidge

Emile Durkheim

“It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh”. –Emile Durkheim

Franz Liszt

“What is our life but a series of preludes to that unknown song of which death sounds the first solemn note?” –Franz Liszt

Subhas Chandra Bose

“Reality is, after all, too big for our frail understanding to fully comprehend. Nevertheless, we have to build our life on the theory which contains the maximum truth. We cannot sit still because we cannot, or do not, know the Absolute Truth”. –Subhas Chandra Bose

Vernon Howard

“You are not responsible for anyone who stubbornly chooses to ruin his own life”. –Vernon Howard

Marcus Aurelius

“Do every act in life as if it was your last”. –Marcus Aurelius

John Keats

“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced – Even a proverb is no proverb to you till your Life has illustrated it”. — John Keats

John Wayne

“Life is tough, but it’s tougher when you’re stupid”. –John Wayne

Miguel de Unamuno

“Suffering is the substance of life, and the root of personality; for it is only suffering that makes us persons”. –Miguel de Unamuno

Martin Luther King

“Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place, but I’m not concerned about that now. I just want to do God’s Will, and He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain, and I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land”. –Martin Luther King

Wendell Willkie

“History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment, than from any other way”. –Wendell Willkie

Oliver Reed

“I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on Earth”. –Oliver Reed

George Washington Carver

“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong; because someday in your life you will have been all of these”. –George Washington Carver

Emiliano Zapata

“It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees”. –Emiliano Zapata