Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Life

1.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

2.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

3.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

4.

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

5.

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

6.

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

7.

Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

8.

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

9.

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

10.

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

11.

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

12.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

13.

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

14.

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

15.

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

Larkin, Philip

16.

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

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

17.

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

James, William

18.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

19.

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

Blake, William

20.

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

21.

The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

22.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

23.

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

Giles, Henry

24.

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

25.

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

26.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

27.

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

Conrad, Joseph

28.

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

29.

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

Tomlin, Lily

30.

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

31.

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

Austen, Jane

32.

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

33.

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

34.

Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

35.

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

36.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

37.

The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

38.

The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

39.

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

40.

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

41.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

42.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

43.

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

44.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

45.

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

46.

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

Horace

47.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

48.

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

Camus, Albert

49.

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.

50.

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

Isherwood, Christopher