Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Brendan Gill

Best Quotes about Life

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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

Boulanger, Nadia

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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

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.

10.

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

11.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

12.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

14.

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

16.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

17.

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

18.

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

Einstein, Albert

19.

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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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

21.

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

23.

Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

24.

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

25.

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

James, William

26.

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

27.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

28.

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

Russell, Bertrand

29.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

30.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

31.

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

32.

What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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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

34.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

37.

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

38.

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

40.

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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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

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

44.

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

45.

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

46.

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

48.

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare