Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

- Oprah Winfrey

Best Quotes about Life

1.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

2.

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

3.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

4.

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

Kempton, Murray

5.

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

Baluch, Joy

6.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

7.

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

8.

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

9.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

10.

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

11.

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

12.

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

13.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

15.

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

16.

Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

17.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

18.

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

Robert Heinlein

19.

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

20.

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

21.

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

22.

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

23.

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

Herzen, Alexander

24.

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

25.

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

26.

What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

27.

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

Welsh, John

28.

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

Angelou, Maya

29.

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

Wise, Alfonso The

30.

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

31.

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

32.

Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

33.

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

Steve Jobs

34.

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

35.

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

36.

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

37.

Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

38.

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

39.

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

40.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

41.

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

42.

Live poor so you can die rich.

43.

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

44.

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

45.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

46.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

47.

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

48.

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

Tomlin, Lily

49.

Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

50.

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

Foreman, George