Motivational Quotes

Life

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Life

Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

10.

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

Temple, Sir William

11.

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

12.

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

13.

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

14.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

15.

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

16.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

17.

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

18.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

19.

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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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

21.

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

22.

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

23.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

24.

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

25.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

26.

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

27.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

28.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

29.

The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

30.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

31.

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

32.

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

33.

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

34.

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

35.

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

36.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

38.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

39.

Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

40.

We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

42.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

43.

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.