Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

1.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

2.

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

3.

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

4.

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

Movie, Forrest Gump

5.

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

6.

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

Herold, Don

7.

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

Facult, F. Paul

8.

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

9.

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

10.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

11.

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

12.

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

13.

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

Dante Alighieri

14.

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

15.

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

16.

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

17.

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

18.

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

19.

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

20.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

21.

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

22.

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

23.

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

24.

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

25.

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

26.

Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

27.

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

28.

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

29.

Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

30.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

32.

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

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

Lennon, John

34.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

35.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

37.

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

Kempton, Murray

38.

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

39.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

40.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

41.

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

42.

Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

43.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

44.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

45.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.