Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Butler, Samuel

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Seneca

10.

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

11.

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

Wilde, Oscar

12.

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

13.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

14.

What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

15.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

16.

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

17.

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

Woody Allen

18.

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

19.

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

20.

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

21.

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

22.

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

23.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

24.

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

25.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

26.

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

Antrim, Minna

27.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

28.

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

29.

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

30.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

31.

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

32.

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

33.

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

34.

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

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

35.

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

36.

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

37.

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

38.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

39.

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

40.

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

41.

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

Heath, David M.

42.

The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

43.

The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

44.

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

45.

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

Forster, Edward M.

46.

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

47.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

48.

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