Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Johnson, Samuel

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

10.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

11.

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

12.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

16.

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

17.

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

18.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

19.

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

20.

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

21.

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.

22.

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

23.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

24.

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

27.

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)

28.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

29.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

30.

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

31.

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

32.

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

Kornfield, Jack

33.

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

34.

Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

35.

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

36.

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

37.

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

38.

I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

40.

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

42.

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

43.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

44.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

45.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

46.

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

47.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

48.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

49.

When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

50.

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