Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

Best Quotes about Life

Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Wally'Famous'Amos

10.

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

11.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

12.

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

13.

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

Johnson, Samuel

14.

Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

15.

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

16.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

17.

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

18.

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

19.

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

James, William

21.

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

22.

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

23.

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

24.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

26.

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

27.

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

28.

There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

29.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

30.

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

31.

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

32.

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

33.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

34.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

35.

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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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

37.

Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

38.

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

39.

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

Butler, Philip

40.

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

41.

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

44.

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

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

Blake, William

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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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles