Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Russell, Lady R.

Best Quotes about Life

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Rexford, Eben Eugene

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

14.

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

15.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

16.

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

17.

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

Simon, Neil

18.

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

19.

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

20.

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

21.

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

22.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

23.

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

24.

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

25.

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

26.

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

27.

The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

28.

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

29.

What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

30.

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

31.

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

32.

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

33.

Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

34.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

36.

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

37.

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

39.

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

40.

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

41.

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

Markiewicz, William

42.

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

43.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

44.

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

Osler, Sir William

45.

When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

46.

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

Lin-Chi

47.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

48.

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

49.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

50.

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