Motivational Quotes

Life

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Life

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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

We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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.

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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

10.

In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

11.

There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

12.

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

13.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

14.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

15.

Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

17.

The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

18.

Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

19.

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

20.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

21.

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

22.

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

24.

Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

27.

Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

28.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

30.

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

31.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

35.

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

36.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

37.

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

38.

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

Thibodeau, Robert

39.

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

40.

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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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

42.

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

43.

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

44.

Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

45.

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

46.

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

47.

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

48.

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

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya