Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

- Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Life

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

Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Austen, Jane

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

Coallier, Steven

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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

Brodsky, Joseph

10.

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

11.

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

12.

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

13.

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

Welsh, John

14.

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

16.

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

17.

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

Kornfield, Jack

18.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

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

Fields, W. C.

20.

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

21.

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

22.

Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

23.

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

Jordan, David Starr

24.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

25.

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

26.

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

Horace

27.

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

28.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

29.

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

30.

The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

31.

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

Carson, Johnny

32.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

33.

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

Pepper, Claude D.

34.

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

35.

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

Walpole, Horace

36.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

37.

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

38.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

39.

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

40.

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

42.

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

44.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

45.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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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

48.

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

49.

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

50.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries