Motivational Quotes

Life

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

- Lin-Chi

Best Quotes about Life

1.

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

2.

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

3.

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

4.

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

5.

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

6.

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

7.

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

Nouwen, Henri

8.

Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

9.

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

Hanks, Tom

10.

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

Shields, Carol

11.

Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

12.

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

13.

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

Dimnet, Ernest

14.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

15.

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

16.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

19.

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

Pliny The Elder

20.

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

Daniel Akst

21.

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

23.

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

24.

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

25.

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

Wolfe, Thomas

26.

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

27.

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

28.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

29.

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

30.

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

31.

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

32.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

33.

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

Thibodeau, Robert

34.

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

Allen, Fred A.

35.

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

36.

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

37.

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

38.

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

39.

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

40.

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

41.

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

42.

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

43.

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

44.

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

45.

Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

46.

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

47.

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

48.

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

49.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

50.

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