Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

1.

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

2.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

3.

Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

4.

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

5.

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.

6.

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

Wilde, Oscar

7.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

8.

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

9.

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

10.

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

11.

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

12.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

13.

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

14.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

15.

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

Clark, Frank A.

16.

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.

17.

Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

18.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

20.

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

21.

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

22.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

23.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

24.

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

Osler, Sir William

25.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

26.

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

Steve Jobs

27.

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

28.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

29.

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

30.

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

Hanks, Tom

31.

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

32.

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

Powell, Robert

33.

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

34.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

35.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

36.

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

37.

Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

38.

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

39.

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

40.

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

41.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

42.

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

43.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

44.

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

45.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

46.

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

Hewitt, George T.

47.

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

Barrymore, John

48.

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.