Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Life

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Horton, Doug

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

Canetti, Elias

10.

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

11.

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

12.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

13.

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

14.

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

15.

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

16.

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

Schmaltz, David A.

17.

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

18.

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

19.

In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

20.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

21.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

22.

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

Byron, Lord

23.

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

24.

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

Kornfield, Jack

25.

To a wise man every day is a new life.

26.

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

27.

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

Horace

28.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

29.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

30.

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

Mead, Margaret

31.

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

32.

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

33.

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

34.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

35.

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

36.

Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

37.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

38.

Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

39.

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

40.

Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

41.

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

42.

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

43.

There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

44.

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

45.

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

46.

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

47.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

48.

Life is supposed to get tough.