Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

- Welsh, John

Best Quotes about Life

1.

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

2.

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

3.

Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

4.

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

5.

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

6.

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

Ciardi, John

7.

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

8.

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

9.

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

Crisp, Quentin

10.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

11.

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

12.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

13.

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

14.

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

15.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

16.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

17.

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

Leno, Jay

18.

Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

19.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

20.

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

21.

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

22.

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

23.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

24.

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

31.

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

32.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

33.

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

34.

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

Wolfe, Thomas

35.

Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

36.

The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

37.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

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

39.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

40.

The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

41.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

42.

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

Barrymore, John