Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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

Herold, Don

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

10.

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

11.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

12.

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

Hanks, Tom

13.

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

14.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

15.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

17.

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

18.

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

19.

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

20.

Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

21.

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

22.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

23.

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

25.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

33.

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

34.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

35.

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

36.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

37.

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

Norris, Kathleen

38.

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

39.

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

40.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

42.

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

McMillan, Terry

43.

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

44.

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

45.

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

46.

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

47.

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

48.

Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

49.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

50.

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell