Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Gellert

Best Quotes about Life

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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

James, William

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

Pope John XXIII

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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

10.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

11.

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

12.

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

13.

Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

14.

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

15.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

16.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

17.

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.

18.

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

19.

Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

20.

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

21.

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

22.

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

24.

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

25.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

26.

The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

27.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

28.

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

29.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

30.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

31.

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

32.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

33.

In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

38.

Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

39.

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

Proverb, Scottish

40.

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

41.

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

42.

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

43.

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

44.

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

45.

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.

46.

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

47.

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.

48.

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

49.

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

50.

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

Dyer, Wayne