Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

1.

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

2.

The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

3.

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

4.

If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

5.

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

6.

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

7.

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

Wright, Steven

8.

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

9.

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

Larkin, Philip

10.

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

11.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

12.

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

14.

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

Harington, Donald

15.

Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

16.

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

17.

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

18.

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

19.

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

Dryden, John

20.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

21.

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

22.

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

23.

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

24.

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

25.

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

27.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

28.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

29.

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

30.

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

31.

Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

32.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

33.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

34.

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

35.

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

Santaguida, Paul

36.

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

37.

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

38.

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

39.

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

Calhoun, John C.

40.

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

41.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

42.

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

43.

A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

44.

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

45.

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

46.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

47.

Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

48.

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

49.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

50.

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha