Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

1.

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

Dawson, Roger

5.

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

6.

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

William Shakespeare

7.

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

8.

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

Markham, Edwin

9.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

10.

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

11.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

12.

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

Proverb, Indian

13.

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

James, William

14.

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

15.

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

16.

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

17.

When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

18.

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

19.

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

20.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

21.

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

22.

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

23.

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

24.

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

25.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

26.

Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

27.

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

28.

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

29.

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

30.

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

Mountain, Marian

31.

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

32.

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

33.

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

34.

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

Cioran, E. M.

35.

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

36.

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

37.

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

38.

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

Proverb, German

39.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

40.

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

41.

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

42.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

43.

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

44.

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

Ben Stein

45.

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

46.

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

47.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

48.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

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

50.

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