Motivational Quotes

Life

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

- Antrim, Minna

Best Quotes about Life

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

10.

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

Lehrer, Tom

11.

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

12.

After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

13.

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

Prochnow, Herbert

14.

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

15.

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

16.

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

17.

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

18.

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

19.

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

20.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

21.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

22.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

23.

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

25.

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

26.

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

Rexford, Eben Eugene

27.

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

28.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

29.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

31.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

32.

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

Herold, Don

33.

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

34.

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

35.

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

36.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

37.

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

Wright, Steven

38.

Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

39.

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

40.

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

41.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

42.

Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

43.

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

Welsh, John

44.

Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

45.

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.

46.

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

47.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

48.

The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

49.

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

50.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von