Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

1.

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

2.

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

3.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

4.

Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

5.

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

6.

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

7.

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

8.

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

9.

The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

10.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

11.

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

12.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

13.

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

14.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

15.

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

16.

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

17.

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

Markham, Edwin

18.

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

19.

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

20.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

21.

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

22.

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

23.

Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

24.

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

25.

Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

26.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

27.

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

28.

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

29.

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

30.

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

31.

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

32.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

35.

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

36.

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

37.

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

38.

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

39.

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

40.

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

41.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

42.

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

43.

After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

44.

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

45.

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

Shields, Carol

46.

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

47.

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

48.

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

49.

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

50.

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

Field, Joanna