Love & Life Sayings

208 sayings found from the Modern era from 208 authors

I'm not afraid of death. I've been dead before.

— Johnny Cash 1990s
Life & Death

I'm a workaholic. I love my job. I love to work. I love to make people happy.

— James Brown 1997
Love & Relationships

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

— Henry Ford Approx. 1920s
Love & Relationships

The first thing I ever earned, when I was 13 years of age, was one dollar and twenty cents a week, and I was the happiest boy on earth.

— Andrew Carnegie Circa 1910 (written)
Nature & World

I've been in the store business all my life, and I love it. I love the smell of the floor wax.

— Sam Walton 1992
Love & Relationships

The greatest joy in life is to be able to do what you love.

— William Randolph Hearst early 20th century
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I don't have to be a movie star to be happy.

— Hedy Lamarr 1960s-1970s
Nature & World

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

— Muhammad Ali 1970s-1980s
Nature & World

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

— Bruce Lee 1971
Nature & World

I'm not going to sit here and say that I love everybody. But I will say that I respect everybody.

— Jackie Robinson 1950s
Love & Relationships

Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress.

— Anton Chekhov 1888
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I am a simple man. I love my family, I love my country, and I love football.

— Pele 2012
Love & Relationships

I am not a saint, but I am not a devil either.

— Rasputin c. 1910s
Life & Death

I can't die but once.

— Harriet Tubman c. 1850s
Life & Death

I have no love for America, as such. I have no patriotism. I have no country. I have no flag. I have nothing to be proud of in this country.

— Frederick Douglass c. 1850s
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I tell you, there is no escape for us. We shall be taken up and carried to the end of the earth, and there we shall be given a hearing.

— Susan B. Anthony 1870s
Nature & World

There were times when it would have been easy to give up, but I knew that if I did, others would suffer.

— Rosa Parks Late 20th Century
Life & Death

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

— William S. Burroughs 1985
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Oh, for some work in the world! It has been given to me to suffer and to serve.

— Florence Nightingale 1846
Life & Death

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

— Albert Schweitzer Unknown
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