Motivational Quotes

Life

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

- Frankl, Viktor E.

Best Quotes about Life

1.

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

2.

If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

3.

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.

4.

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

5.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

6.

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

7.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

8.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

9.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

10.

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

11.

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

12.

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

13.

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

14.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

15.

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

Camus, Albert

16.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

17.

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

18.

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

19.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

20.

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

21.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

22.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

23.

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

24.

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

25.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

27.

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

28.

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

29.

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

30.

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

31.

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

32.

Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

33.

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

34.

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

35.

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

Kennedy, John F.

36.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

37.

We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

38.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

39.

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

Proverb, Scottish

40.

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

Platen

41.

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

42.

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

43.

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

44.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

45.

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

46.

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

47.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

48.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

49.

Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

50.

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh