Motivational Quotes

Life

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

- Hume, David

Best Quotes about Life

1.

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

2.

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

3.

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

Norman Thomas

4.

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

5.

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

Caesar, Sid

6.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

7.

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

8.

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

9.

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

10.

Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

11.

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

12.

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

13.

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

Foreman, George

14.

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

15.

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

16.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

17.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

18.

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

19.

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

20.

Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

21.

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

22.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

23.

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

24.

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

Horace

25.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

26.

The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

27.

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

28.

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

29.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

30.

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

31.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

32.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

33.

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

Kornfield, Jack

34.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

35.

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

36.

Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

37.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

38.

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

Cioran, E. M.

39.

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

Clark, Frank A.

40.

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

41.

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

42.

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

Hayes, Helen

44.

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

45.

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

46.

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

Markiewicz, William

47.

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

Augustine, St.

48.

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

James, William

49.

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

Markham, Edwin

50.

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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