Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

- Morley, Christopher

Best Quotes about Life

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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

The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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.

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

Miller, Henry

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

10.

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

11.

The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

12.

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

Salisbury, Harrison

13.

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

14.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

15.

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

Blackie, Professor

16.

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

17.

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

McMillan, Terry

18.

One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

21.

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

Brodsky, Joseph

22.

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

23.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

24.

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

25.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

26.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

27.

Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

28.

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

Carson, Rachel

29.

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

30.

Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

31.

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

32.

A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

33.

Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

34.

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

35.

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

36.

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

Steve Jobs

37.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

38.

Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

39.

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

40.

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

41.

In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

42.

The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

43.

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

44.

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

Shields, Carol

45.

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

Brodsky, Joseph

46.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

47.

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

48.

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

49.

A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

50.

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall