Motivational Quotes

Life

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Life

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

Curie, Madame Marie

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

10.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

11.

We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

12.

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

13.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

14.

What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

15.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

16.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

17.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

18.

Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

19.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

20.

When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

21.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

22.

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

23.

Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

24.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

25.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

26.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

28.

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

29.

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

30.

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

31.

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

32.

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

33.

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

Kempton, Murray

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

36.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

37.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

39.

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

Santaguida, Paul

40.

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

41.

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

Duncan, Isadora

42.

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

43.

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

44.

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

45.

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

Simon, Neil

46.

Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

47.

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

48.

People should always have something which they prefer to life.