Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Life

1.

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

2.

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

3.

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

4.

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

5.

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

6.

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

7.

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

8.

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

9.

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

10.

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

11.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

12.

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

Feidelson, Charles

13.

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

15.

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

16.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

17.

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

18.

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

19.

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

20.

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

21.

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

Michelangelo

22.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

23.

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

24.

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

25.

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

Dimnet, Ernest

26.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

27.

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

28.

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Dyer, Wayne

32.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

34.

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

Butler, Samuel

35.

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

36.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

37.

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

38.

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

Fran Lebowitz

39.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

40.

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

41.

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

42.

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

43.

The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

44.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

45.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

46.

Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.