Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

- O'Neill, Eugene

Best Quotes about Life

1.

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

Menander of Athens

2.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

3.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

4.

The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

5.

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

6.

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

Keller, Helen

7.

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

8.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

9.

To a wise man every day is a new life.

10.

I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

11.

Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

12.

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

13.

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

14.

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

15.

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

16.

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

17.

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

18.

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

19.

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

Young, J. Z.

20.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

21.

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

22.

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

Lehrer, Tom

23.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

24.

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

25.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

26.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

27.

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

28.

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

29.

Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

30.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

31.

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

32.

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

33.

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

34.

Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

35.

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

36.

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

37.

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

38.

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

39.

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

40.

Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

41.

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

42.

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

43.

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

44.

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

45.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

46.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

47.

Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

50.

Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar