Motivational Quotes

Life

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

- Pavese, Cesare

Best Quotes about Life

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

10.

We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

11.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

12.

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

13.

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

14.

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

15.

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

16.

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

18.

Live poor so you can die rich.

19.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

20.

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

Isherwood, Christopher

21.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

22.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

23.

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

24.

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

25.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

26.

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

Angelou, Maya

27.

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

28.

Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

29.

This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

30.

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

31.

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

32.

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

33.

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

34.

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

35.

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

36.

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

Butler, Samuel

37.

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

38.

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

39.

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

40.

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

41.

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

42.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

43.

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

Delacroix, Eugene

44.

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

45.

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

46.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

47.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

48.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

49.

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates