Motivational Quotes

Life

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

- Wright, Steven

Best Quotes about Life

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Barrymore, John

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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

Giles, Henry

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

10.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

11.

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

Russell, Lady R.

12.

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

May, Rollo

13.

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

14.

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

Caesar, Sid

15.

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

16.

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

17.

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

18.

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

19.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

20.

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

21.

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

22.

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

Wolfe, Thomas

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.

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

25.

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

26.

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

27.

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

Samuel Butler

28.

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

29.

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

30.

The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

31.

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

32.

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

Blake, William

33.

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

34.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

35.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

36.

Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

37.

Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

38.

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

Brendan Gill

39.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

40.

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

41.

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

45.

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

46.

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

Fields, W. C.

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Life is a state of mind.