Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Life

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

10.

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

11.

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

12.

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

13.

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

14.

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.

15.

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

Young, J. Z.

16.

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

17.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

18.

A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

19.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

20.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

21.

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

22.

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

23.

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

24.

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

25.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

26.

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

27.

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

28.

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

29.

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

Foreman, George

30.

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

31.

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

32.

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

33.

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

Carson, Johnny

34.

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

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

36.

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

37.

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

Norman Thomas

38.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

39.

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

40.

Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

41.

What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

42.

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

43.

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

44.

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)

45.

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

46.

You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.