Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

- Nabokov, Vladimir

Best Quotes about Life

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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

Lebowitz, Fran

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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

Havel, Vaclav

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

10.

After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

11.

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

12.

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

13.

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

14.

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

15.

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

16.

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

17.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

18.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

19.

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

Dante Alighieri

20.

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

Leno, Jay

21.

There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

22.

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

23.

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

24.

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

25.

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

26.

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

27.

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

28.

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

29.

Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

30.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

31.

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

32.

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

33.

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

34.

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

35.

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

36.

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

37.

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

38.

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

39.

Making a life comes before making a living.

40.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

41.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

42.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

43.

Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

44.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

46.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

47.

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

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.