Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

- Condoleeza Rice

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

10.

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

11.

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

12.

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

13.

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

14.

There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

15.

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

16.

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

17.

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

18.

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

19.

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

20.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

21.

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

22.

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

23.

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

24.

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

25.

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

26.

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

Coallier, Steven

27.

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

28.

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

29.

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

30.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

31.

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

32.

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

34.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

35.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

36.

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

37.

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

38.

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

39.

What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

40.

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

41.

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

Moses, Grandma

42.

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

43.

Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

44.

The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

45.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

46.

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

47.

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

48.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

49.

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

50.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu