Motivational Quotes

Life

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

- Harington, Donald

Best Quotes about Life

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

10.

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

11.

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

Gellert

12.

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

13.

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

15.

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

Propp Jr., Fred

16.

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

Dyer, Wayne

17.

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

19.

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

21.

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

22.

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

23.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

24.

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

26.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

27.

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

28.

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

Fuller, Thomas

29.

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

30.

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

Austen, Jane

31.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

32.

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

33.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

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

35.

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

36.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

37.

Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

38.

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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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

40.

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

41.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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

Lebowitz, Fran

43.

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

44.

Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

48.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

50.

This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt