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

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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

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

John Lennon

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

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

10.

Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

11.

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

12.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

13.

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

14.

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

15.

There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

16.

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

17.

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

18.

Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

19.

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

20.

Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

21.

Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

22.

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

23.

Live poor so you can die rich.

24.

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

25.

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

26.

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

Delacroix, Eugene

27.

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

28.

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

29.

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

30.

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

31.

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

Rexford, Eben Eugene

32.

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

33.

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

Carson, Johnny

35.

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

36.

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

37.

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

38.

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

40.

Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

41.

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

42.

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

Allen, Fred A.

43.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

44.

Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

45.

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

46.

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

Allen, Fred A.

47.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

48.

The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

49.

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

50.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo