Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

- Buscaglia, Leo

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Caesar, Sid

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

10.

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

11.

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

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

13.

Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

14.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

15.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

16.

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

17.

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

18.

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

Ben Stein

19.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

20.

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

Burns, George

21.

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

22.

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

23.

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

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

25.

Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

26.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

27.

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

28.

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

29.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

30.

Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

31.

Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

32.

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

33.

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

34.

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

35.

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.

36.

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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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

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

40.

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

43.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

44.

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

45.

Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

47.

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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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

49.

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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

Curie, Madame Marie