Motivational Quotes

Life

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

- Shinn, Florence Scovel

Best Quotes about Life

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

Isherwood, Christopher

One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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

I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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

The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

10.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

11.

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

12.

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

13.

But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

14.

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

15.

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

Ward, William A.

16.

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

17.

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

18.

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

Shakespeare, William

19.

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

20.

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

21.

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

Horace

22.

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

23.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

24.

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

Wilde, Oscar

25.

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

26.

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

27.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

28.

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

29.

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

30.

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

31.

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

32.

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

33.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

34.

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

35.

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

Boulanger, Nadia

36.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

37.

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

Coallier, Steven

38.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

39.

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

40.

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

41.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

42.

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

43.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

44.

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

45.

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

46.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

47.

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

Allen, Fred A.

48.

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

49.

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

Samuel Butler

50.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell