Motivational Quotes

Life

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

- Steve Jobs

Best Quotes about Life

1.

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

2.

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

3.

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

James, William

4.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

5.

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

6.

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

7.

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

8.

To a wise man every day is a new life.

9.

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

10.

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

11.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

12.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

13.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

14.

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

15.

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

16.

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

17.

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

Lehrer, Tom

18.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

19.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

20.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

21.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

22.

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

23.

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

24.

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

25.

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

26.

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

27.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

28.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

30.

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

Leno, Jay

31.

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

32.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

33.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

34.

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

Santayana, George

35.

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

36.

A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

37.

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

Seneca

38.

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

39.

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

Herold, Don

40.

The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

41.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

42.

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

43.

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

44.

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

45.

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

46.

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

47.

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

48.

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

49.

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination