Motivational Quotes

Life

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Life

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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

Havel, Vaclav

10.

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

Horton, Doug

11.

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

Camus, Albert

12.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

13.

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

14.

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

Lehrer, Tom

15.

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

16.

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

17.

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

18.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

19.

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

20.

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

21.

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

22.

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

John Lennon

23.

If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

24.

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

25.

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

26.

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

27.

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

28.

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

29.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

30.

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

31.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

32.

I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

34.

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

35.

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

36.

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

39.

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

40.

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

41.

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

42.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

43.

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

44.

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

Burns, George

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Proverb, German

48.

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

49.

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.