Motivational Quotes

Life

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

- Daniel Akst

Best Quotes about Life

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Horton, Doug

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

10.

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

11.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

12.

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

13.

I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

14.

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

15.

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

Ciardi, John

16.

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

17.

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

18.

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

Shakespeare, William

19.

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

Gauguin, Paul

20.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

21.

When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

22.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

23.

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

24.

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

25.

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

26.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

27.

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

28.

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

29.

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

30.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

31.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

32.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

33.

The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

34.

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

Coriolanus III

35.

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

36.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

37.

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

38.

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

Wally'Famous'Amos

39.

Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

40.

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

41.

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

42.

Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

43.

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

44.

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

45.

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

Havel, Vaclav

46.

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

47.

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

48.

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.