Motivational Quotes

Life

To live is not breathing it is action.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Life

1.

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

2.

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

3.

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

Lennon, John

4.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

5.

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

Dryden, John

6.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

7.

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

8.

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

9.

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

10.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

11.

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

12.

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

13.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

14.

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

15.

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

Camus, Albert

16.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

17.

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

18.

Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

19.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

20.

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

21.

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

22.

Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

23.

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

24.

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

25.

What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

26.

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

Duncan, Isadora

27.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

28.

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

29.

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

30.

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

31.

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

Bacon, Francis

32.

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

Simon, Neil

33.

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

Isherwood, Christopher

34.

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

35.

You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

36.

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

37.

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

38.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

39.

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

40.

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

41.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

42.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

43.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

44.

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

45.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

46.

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

47.

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

May, Rollo

48.

There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.