Motivational Quotes

Life

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

- Allen, Fred A.

Best Quotes about Life

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

10.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

11.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

12.

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

Norris, Kathleen

13.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

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

Butler, Samuel

15.

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

16.

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

17.

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

18.

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

19.

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

20.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

21.

Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

22.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

23.

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

24.

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

25.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

26.

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

28.

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

29.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

30.

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

31.

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

32.

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

33.

To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

35.

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

36.

The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

37.

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

42.

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

44.

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch