Motivational Quotes

Life

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

- Lieberman, Gerald F.

Best Quotes about Life

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Horace

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

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

Dimnet, Ernest

10.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

11.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

12.

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

13.

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

Bachelard, Gaston

14.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

15.

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

16.

Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

17.

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

18.

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

19.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

20.

Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

21.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

23.

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

24.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

25.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

26.

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

27.

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

28.

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

29.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

30.

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

31.

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

32.

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

33.

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

34.

Making a life comes before making a living.

35.

Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

36.

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

Harington, Donald

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

38.

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

39.

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

40.

The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

41.

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

42.

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

43.

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

44.

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

Duncan, Isadora

45.

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

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

47.

Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

48.

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

49.

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

Rexford, Eben Eugene

50.

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