Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

- J.K. Rowling

Best Quotes about Life

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Coriolanus III

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

Making a life comes before making a living.

11.

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

12.

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

13.

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

14.

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

15.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

16.

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

17.

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

Debevoise, P. L.

18.

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

Bachelard, Gaston

19.

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

20.

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

Wolfe, Thomas

21.

There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

22.

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

Boulanger, Nadia

23.

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

24.

Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

25.

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

Hanks, Tom

26.

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

27.

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

Dickens, Charles

28.

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

Gauguin, Paul

29.

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

30.

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

31.

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

32.

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

33.

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

Conrad, Joseph

34.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

35.

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

36.

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

37.

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

William Shakespeare

38.

A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

39.

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

40.

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

William Goldman

41.

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.

42.

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

43.

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

44.

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

45.

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo