Motivational Quotes

Life

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

- Pope John XXIII

Best Quotes about Life

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

John Lennon

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

10.

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

11.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

12.

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

13.

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

Camus, Albert

14.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

15.

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

16.

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

17.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

18.

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

19.

Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

20.

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

21.

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

22.

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

23.

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

24.

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

Tomlin, Lily

25.

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

26.

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

May, Rollo

27.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

28.

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

29.

Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

30.

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

Keller, Helen

31.

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

Aleichem, Sholom

32.

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

33.

There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

34.

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

35.

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

Santayana, George

36.

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

37.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

39.

I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

40.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

41.

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

42.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

43.

Live poor so you can die rich.

44.

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

Butler, Samuel

45.

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

Aristotle

46.

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

47.

Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

48.

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

Piatt, Don

49.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

50.

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret