Motivational Quotes

Life

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

- Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Best Quotes about Life

1.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

2.

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

3.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

4.

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

5.

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

6.

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

7.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

8.

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

Russell, Bertrand

9.

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

10.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

11.

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

12.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

13.

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

14.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

15.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

16.

In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

17.

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

18.

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

19.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

20.

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

21.

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

Wright, Steven

22.

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

Duncan, Isadora

23.

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

24.

There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

25.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

26.

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

27.

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

28.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

29.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

30.

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

Douglas, Michael

31.

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

32.

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

33.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

36.

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

37.

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

38.

Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

39.

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

40.

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

41.

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

42.

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

43.

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

44.

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

45.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

47.

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

Pepper, Claude D.

48.

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

49.

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

50.

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace