Motivational Quotes

Life

My life is a battle.

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

10.

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

11.

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

12.

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

13.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

14.

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

15.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

16.

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

17.

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

18.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

19.

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

20.

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

21.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

22.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

23.

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

24.

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

26.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

27.

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

Isaac Asimov

28.

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

29.

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

30.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

31.

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

32.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

33.

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

34.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

35.

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

36.

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

38.

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

41.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

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

Bible

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.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

45.

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

Camus, Albert

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

48.

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

49.

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

50.

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.