Motivational Quotes

Life

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

- Whittier, John Greenleaf

Best Quotes about Life

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Samuel Butler

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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

Southey, Robert

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

Ciardi, John

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

10.

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

11.

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

12.

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

13.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

14.

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

15.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

16.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

17.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

18.

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

19.

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

To a wise man every day is a new life.

21.

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

May, Rollo

22.

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

Menander of Athens

23.

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

Camus, Albert

24.

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

25.

Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

26.

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

27.

There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

28.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

29.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

30.

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

31.

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

32.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

33.

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

34.

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

Lennon, John

35.

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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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

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

38.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

39.

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

Butler, Philip

40.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

41.

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

42.

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

43.

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

44.

Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

45.

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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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

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

48.

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

49.

So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony