Motivational Quotes

Life

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Life

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

Miller, Henry

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

10.

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

11.

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

12.

The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

13.

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

14.

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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.

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

17.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

18.

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

Camus, Albert

19.

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

Daniel Akst

20.

Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

21.

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

22.

I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

23.

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

24.

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

25.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

26.

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

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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

28.

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

29.

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

Austen, Jane

30.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

31.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

32.

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

33.

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

Brodsky, Joseph

34.

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

35.

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

36.

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

37.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

38.

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

39.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

40.

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

41.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

43.

Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

44.

Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

45.

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

Boulanger, Nadia