Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

- Christopher Morley

Best Quotes about Life

1.

Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

2.

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

3.

You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

4.

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

5.

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

6.

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

Steve Jobs

7.

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

8.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

9.

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

10.

The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

11.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

12.

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

13.

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

15.

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

16.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

18.

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

19.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

20.

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

Landers, Ann

21.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

22.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

23.

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

24.

Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

25.

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

26.

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

27.

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

28.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

29.

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

30.

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

Barrymore, John

31.

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

32.

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

Thibodeau, Robert

33.

I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

34.

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

35.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

36.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

37.

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

38.

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

Samuel Butler

39.

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

Wilde, Oscar

40.

Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

41.

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

42.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

43.

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

44.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

45.

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

46.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

47.

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

48.

Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

49.

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

50.

When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin