Motivational Quotes

Life

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

- Lamartine, Alphonse De

Best Quotes about Life

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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

Einstein, Albert

10.

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

11.

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

15.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

16.

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

17.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

18.

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

James, William

19.

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

20.

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

21.

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

22.

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

Simon, Neil

23.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

24.

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

25.

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

Duncan, Isadora

26.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

27.

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.

28.

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

Debevoise, P. L.

29.

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

30.

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

31.

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

32.

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

33.

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

34.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

35.

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

36.

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

37.

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

38.

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

39.

The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

40.

We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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

Marcos, Imelda

43.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

44.

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

45.

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

46.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

47.

The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

48.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

49.

Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder