Motivational Quotes

Life

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

- Polgar, Alfred

Best Quotes about Life

1.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

2.

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

3.

Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

4.

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

5.

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

6.

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

7.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

8.

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

9.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

10.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

11.

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

12.

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

Menander of Athens

13.

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

14.

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

15.

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

16.

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

Southey, Robert

17.

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

18.

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

19.

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

20.

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

21.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

22.

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

23.

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

Mccarthy, Mary

24.

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

25.

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

26.

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

27.

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

Epicurus

28.

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

29.

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

30.

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

33.

In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

34.

Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

35.

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

36.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

37.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

38.

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

39.

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

40.

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

41.

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

42.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

43.

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

44.

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

45.

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

Michelangelo

46.

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

Oprah Winfrey

47.

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

48.

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

49.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

50.

To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian