Motivational Quotes

Life

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Life

1.

Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

2.

In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

3.

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

4.

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

5.

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

6.

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

7.

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

8.

Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

9.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

10.

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

11.

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

12.

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

13.

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

14.

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

15.

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

16.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

18.

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

19.

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

20.

Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

21.

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

22.

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

23.

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

24.

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

25.

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

26.

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

27.

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

28.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

29.

There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

30.

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

31.

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

32.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

33.

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

34.

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

35.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

36.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

37.

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

38.

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

39.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

40.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

41.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

42.

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

43.

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

44.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

45.

I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

46.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

47.

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

48.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

49.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

50.

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando