Motivational Quotes

Life

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Life

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

10.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

11.

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

Lehrer, Tom

12.

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

13.

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

14.

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

15.

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

Kennedy, John F.

16.

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

17.

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

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

Aleichem, Sholom

21.

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

Proverb, Scottish

22.

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

23.

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

24.

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

25.

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

John Lennon

26.

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

27.

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

28.

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

29.

The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

30.

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

31.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

32.

I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

33.

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

34.

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

35.

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

36.

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

37.

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

41.

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

42.

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

43.

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

44.

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

45.

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

46.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

47.

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

48.

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.