Motivational Quotes

Life

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Life

Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

10.

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

11.

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

12.

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

13.

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

14.

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

Rexford, Eben Eugene

15.

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

16.

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

Foreman, George

17.

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

18.

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

McMillan, Terry

20.

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

21.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

22.

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

23.

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

Ben Stein

24.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

25.

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

Cook, Robert A.

26.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

27.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

28.

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

29.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

30.

Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

31.

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

32.

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

33.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

34.

This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

35.

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

Tomlin, Lily

36.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

37.

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

38.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

39.

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

Wolfe, Thomas

40.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

41.

I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

42.

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

43.

Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

44.

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

46.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

47.

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

Orben, Robert

48.

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

49.

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

50.

In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon