Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Allen, Fred A.

Best Quotes about Life

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

10.

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

Allen, Fred A.

11.

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

12.

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

13.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

14.

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

15.

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

16.

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

17.

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

18.

This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

19.

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

20.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

21.

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

22.

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.

Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

24.

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

25.

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

26.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

27.

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

28.

There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

29.

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

30.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

31.

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

Gurney, Robert

32.

I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

33.

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

34.

In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

35.

Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

36.

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

37.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

39.

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

Erhard, Werner

40.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

41.

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

42.

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

43.

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

44.

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

45.

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

46.

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

47.

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

48.

If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

49.

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

Fields, W. C.

50.

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