Motivational Quotes

Life

Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

- Strait, C. Neil

Best Quotes about Life

1.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

2.

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

3.

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

4.

The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

5.

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

6.

I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

7.

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

8.

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

9.

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

10.

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

Augustine, St.

11.

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

12.

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

13.

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

14.

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

15.

To a wise man every day is a new life.

16.

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

Kempton, Murray

17.

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

Robbins, Anthony

18.

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

20.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

21.

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

22.

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

23.

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

24.

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

25.

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

26.

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

27.

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

28.

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

29.

One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

30.

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

31.

Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

32.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

34.

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

35.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

36.

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

37.

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

Barrymore, John

38.

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

39.

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

40.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

41.

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

Santayana, George

42.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

43.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

44.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

45.

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

46.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

47.

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

48.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

49.

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

50.

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James