Motivational Quotes

Life

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Life

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Augustine, St.

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

10.

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

11.

Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

12.

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

13.

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

14.

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

15.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

16.

Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

17.

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

18.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

19.

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.

20.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

21.

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

22.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

23.

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

24.

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

25.

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

26.

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

27.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

28.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

29.

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

30.

What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

31.

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

32.

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

33.

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

35.

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

36.

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

37.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

38.

Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

39.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

40.

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

41.

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

Eliot, T. S.

42.

Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

43.

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

44.

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

45.

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

46.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

47.

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

Proverb, Persian

48.

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

49.

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

50.

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret