Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

10.

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

Salisbury, Harrison

11.

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

12.

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

13.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

14.

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

15.

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

Moses, Grandma

16.

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

17.

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

18.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

19.

I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

20.

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

21.

The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

22.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

24.

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

25.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

26.

Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

27.

Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

28.

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

29.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

30.

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

31.

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

32.

This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

33.

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

34.

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

Delacroix, Eugene

35.

We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

37.

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

Camus, Albert

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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

Kennedy, John F.

41.

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

42.

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

Havel, Vaclav

43.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

44.

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

45.

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

48.

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

49.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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

Seneca