Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

- Christopher Morley

Best Quotes about Life

Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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

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

Herold, Don

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

10.

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

11.

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

12.

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

13.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

14.

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

15.

And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

16.

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

17.

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

18.

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

21.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

22.

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

Bacon, Francis

23.

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

24.

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

Seneca

25.

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

Menander of Athens

26.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

27.

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

28.

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

29.

Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

30.

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

31.

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

32.

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

Broun, Heywood

33.

Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

34.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

35.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

36.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

37.

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

38.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

39.

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

40.

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

41.

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

42.

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

Norris, Kathleen

43.

A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

44.

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

45.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

46.

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

Camus, Albert

47.

What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

50.

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

Cook, Robert A.