Motivational Quotes

Life

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Life

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Butler, Philip

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Rogers, Will

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

10.

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

11.

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

12.

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

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

13.

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

Duncan, Isadora

14.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

15.

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

16.

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

17.

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

18.

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

19.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

20.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

21.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

22.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

23.

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

William Goldman

24.

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

25.

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

Menander of Athens

26.

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

28.

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

29.

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

30.

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

31.

Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

32.

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

33.

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

34.

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

35.

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

36.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

37.

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

38.

Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

39.

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

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

Linkletter, Art

41.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

42.

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

43.

The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

44.

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

45.

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

46.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

47.

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

48.

Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

49.

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael