Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Life

1.

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

2.

Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

3.

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

4.

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

5.

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

6.

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

Wickett, Michael

7.

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

8.

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

9.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

11.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

12.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

13.

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

Walpole, Horace

14.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

15.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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

17.

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

18.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

19.

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

Bible

20.

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

21.

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

22.

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

23.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

24.

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

25.

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

Cioran, E. M.

26.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

27.

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

Lennon, John

28.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

29.

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

Mead, Margaret

30.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

31.

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

32.

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

33.

Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

34.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

35.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

36.

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

37.

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

38.

The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

39.

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

40.

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

41.

Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

45.

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

47.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

48.

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