Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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

Dawson, Roger

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

Barrymore, John

10.

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

11.

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

12.

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

13.

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

14.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

15.

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

16.

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

17.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

18.

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

19.

So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

20.

Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

21.

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

22.

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

23.

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

24.

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

25.

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

26.

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

27.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

28.

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

Antrim, Minna

29.

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

30.

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

31.

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

32.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

33.

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

34.

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

35.

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

36.

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

37.

There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

38.

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.

39.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

40.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

41.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

42.

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

43.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

44.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

45.

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

46.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

47.

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

48.

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

49.

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

50.

The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand