Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Santayana, George

Best Quotes about Life

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

10.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

11.

After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

12.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

13.

What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

14.

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

15.

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

16.

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

17.

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

18.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

19.

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

20.

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

21.

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

22.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

23.

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

May, Rollo

24.

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

25.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

26.

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

27.

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

28.

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.

29.

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

31.

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

32.

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

33.

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

35.

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

36.

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

37.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

38.

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

Calhoun, John C.

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

40.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

41.

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

Mountain, Marian

42.

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

Thibodeau, Robert

43.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

44.

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

Robbins, Anthony

45.

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

46.

We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

47.

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

Menander of Athens

48.

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

49.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

50.

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare