Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

- Dorgan, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Life

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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

Erickson, Lou

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

10.

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

11.

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

Austen, Jane

12.

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

13.

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

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

Boese, Paul

16.

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

17.

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

18.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

19.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

20.

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

21.

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

22.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

24.

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

25.

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

26.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

27.

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

Prochnow, Herbert

28.

Making a life comes before making a living.

29.

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

30.

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

31.

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

Camus, Albert

32.

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

33.

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

34.

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

35.

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

36.

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

37.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

38.

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

39.

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

40.

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

41.

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

James, William

42.

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

43.

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

44.

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

45.

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

46.

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

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.