“If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.”

“Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.”

“Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It’s something we call heart power. Once a man has made this commitment, nothing will stop him short of success.”

“Football is like life – it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.”

“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”

The life of a man is like a flower, blooming so gaily in a field. Then, along comes a goat, he eats it and the flower is gone!

It's better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life.

We should show life neither as it is, nor as it should be, but as we see it in our dreams.

How easy it is, Doctor, to be a philosopher on paper, and how difficult in real life!

If one wants to lead a good life, A HUMAN LIFE, one must work.

Which executioner is the more humane, he who kills you in a few minutes or he who drags the life out of you in the course of many years

..when one has no real life, one lives by mirages. It's still better than nothing.

Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.

And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.

This life of ours...human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up---no more flower.

MEDVIEDENKO Why do you always wear mourning? MASHA I dress in black to match my life. I am unhappy.

If my life can ever be of any use to you, come and take it.

Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.

To fear love is to fear life, and those whose fear life are already three parts dead...

If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.

When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life.

“Man needs difficulties in life because they are necessary to enjoy the success.”

“LIFE and TIME are the world’s best Teachers. Life teaches us to make good use of TIME and TIME teaches us the value of LIFE.”

“Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.