Motivational Quotes

Life

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Life

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

Cabell, James Branch

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Brendan Gill

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

Barrymore, John

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

James, William

10.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

11.

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

12.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

13.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

14.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

15.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

17.

Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

18.

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

Mead, Margaret

19.

When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

20.

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

21.

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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.

In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

24.

Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

25.

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

Mark Hodder

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

28.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

30.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

31.

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

32.

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

Samuel Butler

33.

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

34.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

35.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

36.

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

39.

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

Duncan, Isadora

40.

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

41.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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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

44.

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

45.

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

46.

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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

Leno, Jay

48.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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

May, Rollo

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack