Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

1.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

2.

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

Mead, Margaret

3.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

4.

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

Lennon, John

5.

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

6.

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

Dickens, Charles

7.

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

8.

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

9.

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

10.

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

11.

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

12.

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

13.

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

William Shakespeare

14.

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

15.

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

16.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

17.

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

Einstein, Albert

18.

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

Thibodeau, Robert

19.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

20.

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

21.

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

Forster, Edward M.

22.

The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

23.

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

Harington, Donald

24.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

25.

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

26.

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

28.

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

Larkin, Philip

29.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

30.

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

31.

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

Wally'Famous'Amos

32.

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

33.

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

34.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

35.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

36.

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

37.

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

38.

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

39.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

40.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

41.

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

42.

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

43.

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

44.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

45.

Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

46.

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

47.

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

Dimnet, Ernest

48.

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.

49.

You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

50.

Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman