Motivational Quotes

Life

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

- Proverb, Persian

Best Quotes about Life

1.

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

2.

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

3.

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

4.

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

5.

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

6.

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

7.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

8.

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

9.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

10.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

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

Linkletter, Art

12.

The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

13.

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

14.

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

15.

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

16.

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

17.

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

18.

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

19.

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

Santaguida, Paul

20.

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

22.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

23.

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

Norris, Kathleen

24.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

25.

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

27.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

28.

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

29.

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

30.

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

31.

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

32.

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

James, William

33.

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

34.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

35.

Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

36.

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

37.

A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

38.

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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.

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

41.

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

42.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

43.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

44.

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

45.

Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

46.

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

47.

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

48.

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

49.

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

50.

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