Motivational Quotes

Life

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

- Ibuka, Massaru

Best Quotes about Life

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.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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

The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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

Kempton, Murray

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

Douglas, Michael

10.

What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

11.

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

12.

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

13.

Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

14.

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

15.

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

16.

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

Daniel Akst

17.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

18.

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

Larkin, Philip

19.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

20.

What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

21.

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

22.

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

23.

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

24.

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

25.

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

26.

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

27.

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

28.

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

29.

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

30.

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

31.

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

32.

Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

33.

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

34.

Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

35.

But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

36.

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

37.

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

38.

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

39.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

40.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

41.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

42.

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

43.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

44.

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

45.

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

Camus, Albert

46.

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

Hume, David

47.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

48.

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