Motivational Quotes

Life

Life flows on within you and without you.

- Harrison, George

Best Quotes about Life

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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

Blackie, Professor

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

10.

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

11.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

12.

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

13.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

14.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

15.

In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

16.

One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

17.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

18.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

19.

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

Simon, Neil

20.

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

21.

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

22.

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

23.

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

Camus, Albert

24.

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

25.

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

26.

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

27.

The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

28.

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

29.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

31.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

32.

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

Harington, Donald

33.

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

34.

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

35.

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

36.

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

37.

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

38.

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

39.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

40.

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

41.

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

42.

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

43.

Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

44.

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

45.

Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

46.

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

47.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

48.

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

49.

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

50.

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.