Life Quotes

One of the definitions of a quote is a saying. It is something that is easily remembered and has some truth behind it. Some quotes, if taken to heart, can help you in life situations. Some quotes can also help you understand other people, like the Japanese Proverb below. Quotes can be found all over the internet. If you are trying to find quotes that will help you, pick out the best for you, not just any quote. There are funny quotes out there, but they too can have real life meanings behind them.

Proverbs:

A man is as old as he feels himself to be.

-English Proverb

God pays, but not weekly wages.

-Polish Proverb

Everyone is the age of their heart.

-Guatemalan Proverb

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.

-Japanese Proverb

Saint Augustine:

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

-Saint Augustine

God loves each of us as if there was only one of us.

-Saint Augustine

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

-Saint Augustine

Life:

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

-Leo Tolstoy

Only I can change my life. No One can do it for me.

-Carol Burnett

I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.

-Ken Venturi

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as writing a poem.

-Booker T. Washington

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

-George Eliot

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

-Richard Wagner

God, if I can't have what I want, let me want what I have.

-Anonymous Prayer

Funny and Other:
Knowledge is power.
-Sir Francis Bacon

If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the whole world will be blind and toothless.

-Mahatma Gandhi

Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning.

-Marlo Thomas