Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

1.

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

2.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

3.

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

Michelangelo

4.

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

5.

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

Markham, Edwin

6.

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

7.

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

8.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

9.

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

10.

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

11.

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

12.

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

13.

If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

14.

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

15.

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

Russell, Lady R.

16.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

17.

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

18.

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.

19.

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

Larkin, Philip

20.

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

21.

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

22.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

23.

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

24.

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

25.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

26.

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

27.

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

28.

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

29.

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

30.

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

31.

In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

32.

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

33.

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

Byron, Lord

34.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

35.

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

Wright, Steven

36.

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

37.

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

38.

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

Keller, Helen

39.

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

40.

Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

41.

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

42.

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

44.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

45.

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

47.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

48.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

49.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

50.

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