Motivational Quotes

Life

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

- Weil, Simone

Best Quotes about Life

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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

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

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Proverb, Scottish

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

Live poor so you can die rich.

11.

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

12.

The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

13.

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

Clark, Frank A.

14.

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

15.

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

16.

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

17.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

18.

There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

19.

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

20.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

21.

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

22.

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.

23.

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

24.

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

25.

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

26.

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

27.

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

Kempton, Murray

28.

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

29.

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

30.

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

Heath, David M.

31.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

32.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

33.

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

34.

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

Dickens, Charles

35.

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

36.

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

Giles, Henry

37.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

38.

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

39.

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

40.

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

41.

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

Bible

42.

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

43.

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

44.

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

45.

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

46.

To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

47.

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

48.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

49.

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

Movie, Forrest Gump

50.

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.