Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Gable, Clark

Best Quotes about Life

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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

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

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

William Shakespeare

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

10.

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

Augustine, St.

11.

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

12.

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

13.

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

14.

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

15.

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

16.

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

17.

The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

18.

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

Bacon, Francis

19.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

20.

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

John Lennon

21.

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

22.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

23.

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

Fran Lebowitz

24.

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

25.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

26.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

27.

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

28.

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

29.

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

30.

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

31.

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

Allen, Fred A.

32.

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

Gable, Clark

33.

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

34.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

35.

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

36.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

37.

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

38.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

39.

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

40.

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

41.

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

42.

A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

43.

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

44.

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

45.

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

46.

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

47.

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

48.

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

49.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

50.

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.