Motivational Quotes

Life

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Life

1.

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

2.

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

Proverb, Persian

3.

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

4.

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

5.

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

6.

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

7.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

8.

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

9.

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

10.

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

Menander of Athens

11.

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

12.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

13.

Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

14.

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

15.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

16.

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

17.

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

18.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

19.

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

20.

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

21.

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

Markiewicz, William

22.

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

23.

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

24.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

25.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

26.

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

27.

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

28.

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

Isherwood, Christopher

29.

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

30.

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

Welsh, John

31.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

32.

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

33.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

34.

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

35.

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

Aristotle

36.

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

37.

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

William Goldman

38.

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

Southey, Robert

39.

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

40.

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.