Motivational Quotes

Life

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

- Huxtable, Ada Louise

Best Quotes about Life

1.

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

Temple, Sir William

2.

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

3.

Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

4.

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

5.

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

William Goldman

6.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

7.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

8.

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

9.

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

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

11.

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

12.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

13.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

14.

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

15.

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

Markham, Edwin

16.

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

Wolfe, Thomas

17.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

18.

This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

19.

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

20.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

21.

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

22.

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

23.

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

24.

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

25.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

26.

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

27.

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

28.

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

29.

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

30.

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

31.

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

32.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

33.

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

34.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

35.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

36.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

37.

Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

38.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

39.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

40.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

41.

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

42.

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

43.

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

44.

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

45.

In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

46.

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

Pope John XXIII

47.

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.