Motivational Quotes

Life

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

- Santayana, George

Best Quotes about Life

1.

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

2.

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

3.

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

4.

Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

5.

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

6.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

7.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

8.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

9.

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

10.

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

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

11.

I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

12.

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

13.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

14.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

15.

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

16.

The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

17.

The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

18.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

19.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

20.

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

21.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

22.

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

23.

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

24.

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

25.

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

26.

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

27.

Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

28.

The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

29.

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

30.

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

31.

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

32.

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

33.

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

34.

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

35.

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

36.

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

Camus, Albert

37.

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

38.

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

Kennedy, John F.

39.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

40.

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

41.

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

42.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

43.

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

44.

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

Carson, Johnny

45.

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

46.

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

47.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

48.

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

49.

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

50.

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven