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

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Hanks, Tom

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

10.

I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

11.

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

12.

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

13.

Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

14.

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

15.

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

Markiewicz, William

16.

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

17.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

18.

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

19.

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

21.

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

22.

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

23.

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

24.

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

25.

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

26.

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

27.

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

Dane, Frank

28.

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

29.

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

30.

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

Walpole, Horace

31.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

32.

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

33.

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

Fran Lebowitz

34.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

35.

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

36.

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

37.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

38.

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

39.

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

40.

Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

41.

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

42.

I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

43.

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

44.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

45.

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

46.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

47.

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

48.

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

Isaac Asimov

49.

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.

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh