Motivational Quotes

Life

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Life

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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

Berenson, Bernard

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

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

10.

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

11.

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

Kant, Immanuel

12.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

13.

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

14.

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

15.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

16.

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

17.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

19.

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

20.

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

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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

Newman, Peter C.

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

24.

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

Brodsky, Joseph

25.

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

26.

What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

27.

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

28.

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

James, William

29.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

30.

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

31.

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

32.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

33.

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

35.

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

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

37.

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

40.

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.

41.

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.