Motivational Quotes

Life

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

- Baudrillard, Jean

Best Quotes about Life

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

Mead, Margaret

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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

Thibodeau, Robert

10.

After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

11.

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

12.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

13.

To a wise man every day is a new life.

14.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

15.

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

16.

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

17.

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

18.

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

19.

Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

20.

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.

21.

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

Daniel Akst

22.

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

23.

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

Aristotle

24.

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

25.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

26.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

28.

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

29.

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

Harington, Donald

30.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

31.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

32.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

33.

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

34.

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

35.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

36.

This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

38.

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

39.

Live poor so you can die rich.

40.

Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

41.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

42.

Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

43.

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

44.

The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

45.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

46.

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

47.

This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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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

49.

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

50.

My life is a battle.

Voltaire