Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Coriolanus III

Best Quotes about Life

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

10.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

11.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

12.

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

13.

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

14.

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

Crisp, Quentin

15.

Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

16.

Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

17.

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

18.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

19.

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

20.

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

21.

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

22.

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

23.

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.

24.

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

25.

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

26.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

27.

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

28.

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

29.

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

30.

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

31.

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

32.

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

33.

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

34.

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

35.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

36.

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

Thibodeau, Robert

37.

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

38.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

39.

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

40.

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

41.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

42.

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

43.

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

44.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

46.

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

47.

There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

48.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

49.

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

50.

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare