Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

1.

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

Herold, Don

2.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

3.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

4.

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

5.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

6.

Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

7.

Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

8.

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

9.

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

10.

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

11.

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

Propp Jr., Fred

12.

And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

Caesar, Sid

14.

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

15.

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

16.

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

17.

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

18.

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

Butler, Samuel

19.

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

Thibodeau, Robert

20.

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

21.

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

22.

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

23.

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

24.

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

25.

Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

26.

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

27.

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

28.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

29.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

30.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

31.

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

Bacon, Francis

32.

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

Wolfe, Thomas

33.

Making a life comes before making a living.

34.

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

35.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

36.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

37.

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

38.

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

39.

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

40.

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

41.

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

42.

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

Dawson, Roger

43.

Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

44.

Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

45.

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

Camus, Albert

46.

A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

47.

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

48.

The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

49.

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

50.

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora