Motivational Quotes

Life

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

- Lawrence, D. H.

Best Quotes about Life

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

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

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

10.

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

11.

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

12.

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

John Lennon

13.

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

14.

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

Brendan Gill

15.

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

16.

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

17.

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

18.

You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

19.

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

24.

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

25.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

26.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

27.

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

28.

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

Markham, Edwin

29.

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

31.

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

32.

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

33.

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

34.

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

35.

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

36.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

37.

Live poor so you can die rich.

38.

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

39.

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

40.

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

Proverb, Persian

41.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

42.

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

43.

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

44.

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

45.

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

Foreman, George

46.

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

47.

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

48.

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

49.

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

50.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne