Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Boulanger, Nadia

Best Quotes about Life

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Leno, Jay

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

10.

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

11.

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

Duncan, Isadora

12.

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

13.

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

14.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

15.

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)

16.

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

17.

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

18.

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

Seneca

19.

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

20.

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

21.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

22.

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

23.

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

24.

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

25.

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

26.

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

27.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

28.

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

29.

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

30.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

31.

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

32.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

33.

The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

34.

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

35.

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

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

37.

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

40.

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

Billings, Josh

41.

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

42.

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

43.

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

44.

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

45.

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

46.

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

Piatt, Don

47.

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

James, William

48.

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

49.

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

50.

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert