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

1.

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

2.

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

3.

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

4.

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

5.

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

6.

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

7.

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

8.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

9.

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

Hanks, Tom

10.

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

11.

All that man has will he give for his life.

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12.

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

13.

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

14.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

15.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

16.

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

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

17.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

18.

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

James, William

19.

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

20.

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

Pope John XXIII

21.

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

22.

To a wise man every day is a new life.

23.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

24.

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

25.

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

26.

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

27.

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

William Goldman

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

Walpole, Horace

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

34.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

35.

The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

36.

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

Shakespeare, William

37.

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

38.

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

39.

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

40.

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

41.

Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

42.

What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

43.

Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

47.

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

48.

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

49.

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

50.

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

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