Motivational Quotes

Life

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

- Foreman, George

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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

Lennon, John

10.

Making a life comes before making a living.

11.

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

12.

This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

13.

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

14.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

15.

Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

16.

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

Young, J. Z.

17.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

18.

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

Dyer, Wayne

19.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

20.

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

21.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

22.

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

23.

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

24.

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

25.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

26.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

27.

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

28.

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

Allen, Fred A.

29.

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

30.

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

31.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

32.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

33.

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

Welsh, John

34.

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

35.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

36.

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

37.

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

38.

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

39.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

40.

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

41.

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

Gellert

42.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

43.

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

44.

Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

45.

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

46.

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

47.

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

48.

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

49.

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

50.

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De