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Life Quotes by David McCullough
- We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The most readily available resource for…
- Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.
- The fulfilling life, the distinctive life, the relevant life is an achievement. To do whatever you do for no reason other than you love it…
- History is not just about dates and quotations. And it's not just about politics, the military and social issues, though much of it of course…
- Exercise free will and creative, independent thought not for the satisfactions they will bring you, but for the good they will do others, the rest…
- I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down.
- Read. Read every chance you get. Read to keep growing. Read history. Read poetry. Read for pure enjoyment. Read a book called Life on a…
- When the founders wrote about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, they didn't mean longer vacations and more comfortable hammocks. They meant the pursuit…
- Any nation that expects to be ignorant and free," Jefferson said, "expects what never was and never will be." And if the gap between the…
- To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle