Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Cioran, E. M.

Best Quotes about Life

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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.

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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

John Lennon

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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

Mccarthy, Mary

10.

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

Camus, Albert

11.

The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

13.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

15.

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

16.

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

17.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

18.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

19.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

20.

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

21.

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

22.

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

23.

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

24.

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

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

27.

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

28.

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

29.

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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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

31.

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

32.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

33.

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

Burns, George

34.

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

James, William

35.

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

37.

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

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

39.

Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

40.

There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

41.

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

Douglas, Michael

42.

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

43.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

44.

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

45.

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

46.

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

James, William

47.

Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

48.

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

49.

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

50.

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David