Motivational Quotes

Life

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

- May, Rollo

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

10.

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

11.

Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

12.

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

13.

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

14.

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

17.

The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

18.

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

19.

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

Salisbury, Harrison

20.

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

Camus, Albert

21.

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

22.

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

23.

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

24.

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

Walpole, Horace

25.

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

26.

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

27.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

28.

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

Lin-Chi

29.

Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

30.

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

James, William

31.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

32.

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

33.

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

34.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

35.

Making a life comes before making a living.

36.

The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

37.

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

38.

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

Giles, Henry

39.

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

40.

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

41.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

42.

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

Delacroix, Eugene

43.

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

44.

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

Shields, Carol

45.

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

46.

But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

47.

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

48.

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.

49.

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

50.

Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John