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

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

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

10.

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

11.

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

12.

Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

13.

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

14.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

15.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

16.

You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

17.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

18.

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

19.

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

20.

Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

21.

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

Mccarthy, Mary

22.

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

23.

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

24.

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

25.

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

26.

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

27.

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

28.

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

29.

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

30.

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

Caesar, Sid

31.

What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

32.

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

33.

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

34.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

35.

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

Norman Thomas

36.

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

Cioran, E. M.

37.

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

38.

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

39.

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

Harington, Donald

40.

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

41.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

42.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

47.

The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

48.

Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

49.

In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

50.

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert