Motivational Quotes

Life

Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

- Pritchett, V. S.

Best Quotes about Life

1.

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

2.

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

3.

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

4.

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

5.

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

6.

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

7.

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

8.

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

9.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

10.

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

11.

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

Robert Heinlein

12.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

13.

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

14.

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

15.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

16.

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

17.

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

Moses, Grandma

18.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

19.

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

20.

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

Piatt, Don

21.

To a wise man every day is a new life.

22.

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

23.

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

24.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

25.

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

26.

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

28.

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

29.

Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

30.

Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

31.

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

32.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

33.

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

34.

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

Boese, Paul

35.

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.