Motivational Quotes

Life

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Life

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

James, William

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

10.

The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

11.

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

Kant, Immanuel

12.

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

Landers, Ann

13.

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

14.

Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

15.

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

16.

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

17.

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

18.

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

19.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

20.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

21.

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

22.

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

Waitley, Denis

23.

To a wise man every day is a new life.

24.

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

25.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

26.

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

27.

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

Seneca

28.

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.

29.

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

30.

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

31.

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

32.

In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

33.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

34.

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

35.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

36.

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

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

38.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

39.

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

40.

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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

43.

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

44.

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

45.

Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

46.

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.

47.

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

48.

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

Santayana, George

49.

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

50.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri