Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Life

1.

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

2.

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

Dyer, Wayne

3.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

4.

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

6.

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

7.

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

8.

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

9.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

11.

Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

12.

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

13.

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

14.

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

16.

The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

17.

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

Hayes, Helen

18.

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

Giles, Henry

19.

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

20.

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

21.

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

22.

A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

23.

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

24.

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

25.

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

26.

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

27.

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

28.

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

29.

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

30.

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

31.

Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

32.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

33.

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

34.

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

35.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

36.

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

Cioran, E. M.

37.

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

38.

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

39.

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

Hewitt, George T.

40.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

41.

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

42.

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

43.

We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

44.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

45.

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

46.

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

47.

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

48.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

49.

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

50.

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

Fuller, Thomas