Motivational Quotes

Life

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

- Norman Thomas

Best Quotes about Life

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

10.

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

11.

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

Truman Capote

12.

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

13.

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

15.

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

16.

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

17.

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

18.

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

19.

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

20.

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

21.

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

22.

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

23.

Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

24.

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

Walpole, Horace

25.

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

26.

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

27.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

28.

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

29.

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

30.

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

31.

Making a life comes before making a living.

32.

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

33.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

34.

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

35.

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

36.

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

37.

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

Clark, Frank A.

38.

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

39.

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

40.

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

41.

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

42.

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

43.

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

44.

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

Calhoun, John C.

45.

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

46.

What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

47.

We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

48.

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

49.

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul