Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Ward, William A.

And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

10.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

11.

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

Larkin, Philip

12.

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

13.

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

14.

Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

15.

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

16.

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

17.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

18.

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

19.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

20.

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

21.

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

22.

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

William Goldman

23.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

24.

What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

25.

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

26.

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

27.

Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

28.

This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

29.

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

30.

The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

31.

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

32.

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

33.

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

34.

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

35.

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

36.

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

37.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

38.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

40.

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

Russell, Lady R.

41.

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

42.

You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

43.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

44.

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

45.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

46.

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

47.

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

48.

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