Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

1.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

2.

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

3.

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

4.

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

5.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

6.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

7.

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

Pope John XXIII

8.

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

9.

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

10.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

11.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

Proverb, Scottish

13.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

14.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

15.

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

16.

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

17.

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

Foreman, George

18.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

19.

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

Austen, Jane

20.

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

21.

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

22.

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

23.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

24.

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

25.

The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

26.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

27.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

28.

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

29.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

30.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

31.

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.

32.

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

33.

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

Hume, David

34.

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

35.

Live poor so you can die rich.

36.

The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

37.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

38.

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

39.

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

40.

Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

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41.

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

Woody Allen

42.

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

Gauguin, Paul

44.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

45.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

46.

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

Moses, Grandma

47.

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)

48.

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

49.

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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