Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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

Oprah Winfrey

The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Douglas, Michael

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

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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

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

10.

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

12.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

13.

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

14.

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

15.

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

16.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

17.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

18.

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

19.

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

20.

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

21.

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

22.

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

23.

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

24.

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

25.

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

26.

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

27.

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

28.

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

29.

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

Harington, Donald

30.

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

31.

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

32.

The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

33.

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

34.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

35.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

36.

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

Bible

37.

Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

38.

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

James, William

39.

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

40.

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

41.

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

42.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

43.

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

44.

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

45.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

46.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

47.

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

48.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

49.

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

50.

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

Camus, Albert