Motivational Quotes

Life

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Life

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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

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

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

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Larkin, Philip

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

10.

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

Booth, Evangeline Cory

11.

Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

12.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

14.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

21.

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

22.

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

23.

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

24.

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

25.

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

26.

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

Horton, Doug

27.

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

28.

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

29.

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

30.

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

31.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

32.

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

33.

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

34.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

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

Landers, Ann

36.

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

Gable, Clark

37.

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

38.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

39.

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

40.

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

Lehrer, Tom

41.

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

Blackie, Professor

42.

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

43.

Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

44.

Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Havel, Vaclav

48.

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

49.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

50.

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

Hanks, Tom