Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

- O'Neill, Eugene

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Connolly, Cyril

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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

James, William

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

Fuller, Thomas

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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

10.

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

11.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

12.

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

13.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

14.

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

Harington, Donald

15.

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

Shakespeare, William

16.

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

17.

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

18.

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

Delacroix, Eugene

19.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

20.

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

21.

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

22.

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

23.

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

24.

Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

25.

A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

26.

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

27.

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

28.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

29.

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

Hayes, Helen

30.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

31.

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

32.

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

33.

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

34.

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

35.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

36.

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

James, William

37.

The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

40.

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

41.

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

42.

The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

43.

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

44.

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

45.

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

46.

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.