Motivational Quotes

Life

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

- Saroyan, William

Best Quotes about Life

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

Herold, Don

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

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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

Aleichem, Sholom

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

10.

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

11.

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

12.

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

13.

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

14.

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

15.

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

16.

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

17.

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

18.

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

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

20.

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

21.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

22.

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

23.

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

24.

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

25.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

26.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

27.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

28.

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

29.

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

30.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

31.

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

32.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

33.

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

34.

Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

35.

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

Mountain, Marian

36.

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

37.

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

38.

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

Fields, W. C.

39.

We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

40.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

41.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

42.

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

43.

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

44.

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

45.

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

46.

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

48.

The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

49.

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

Hewitt, George T.

50.

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma