Motivational Quotes

Life

Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

- Rilke, Rainer Maria

Best Quotes about Life

The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Tomlin, Lily

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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

Cousteau, Jacques

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

10.

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

Bacon, Francis

11.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

12.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

13.

Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

14.

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

Lennon, John

15.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

16.

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

Markiewicz, William

17.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

18.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

19.

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

20.

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

21.

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

22.

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

Michelangelo

23.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

24.

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

25.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

26.

This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

27.

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

28.

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

29.

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

30.

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

31.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

32.

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

33.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

34.

Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

35.

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

36.

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

37.

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

38.

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

39.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

40.

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

Russell, Lady R.

41.

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

42.

Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

43.

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

May, Rollo

44.

The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

45.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

47.

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

48.

Live poor so you can die rich.

49.

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

Kempton, Murray

50.

Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross