Motivational Quotes

Life

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

- Gusoff, Adrienne

Best Quotes about Life

1.

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

2.

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

3.

Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

4.

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

5.

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

Berenson, Bernard

6.

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

7.

Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

8.

Making a life comes before making a living.

9.

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

10.

Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

11.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

12.

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

James, William

13.

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

15.

If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

16.

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

17.

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

Carson, Johnny

18.

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

20.

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

Brodsky, Joseph

21.

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

22.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

24.

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

25.

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

26.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

27.

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

28.

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

Dane, Frank

29.

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

30.

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

31.

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.

32.

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

33.

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

35.

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

36.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

37.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

38.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

39.

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

Austen, Jane

40.

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

41.

The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

42.

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

43.

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

44.

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

45.

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

46.

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

47.

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

48.

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

49.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

50.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor