Motivational Quotes

Life

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Life

1.

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

Canetti, Elias

2.

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

3.

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

4.

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

5.

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

6.

Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

7.

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

8.

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

9.

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

Propp Jr., Fred

10.

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

11.

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

Cabell, James Branch

12.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

13.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

14.

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

15.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

16.

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

17.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

18.

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

19.

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

20.

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

21.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

22.

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

23.

We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

24.

Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

25.

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

26.

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

27.

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

28.

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

29.

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

30.

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

31.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

32.

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

33.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

34.

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

35.

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

36.

I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

37.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.