Motivational Quotes

Life

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Life

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

10.

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

11.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

12.

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

13.

Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

14.

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

15.

This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

16.

The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

17.

Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

18.

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

19.

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

20.

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

22.

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

Lin-Chi

23.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

25.

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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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

27.

Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

28.

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

29.

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

30.

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

31.

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

32.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

33.

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

34.

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

35.

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

36.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

37.

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

Barrymore, John

38.

Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

39.

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

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

Giles, Henry

41.

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

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

43.

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

Johnson, Samuel

44.

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

45.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

46.

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

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

Lehrer, Tom

50.

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