Motivational Quotes

Life

To a wise man every day is a new life.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Life

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Shakespeare, William

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

10.

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

Proverb, Scottish

11.

Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

12.

The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

13.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

14.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

18.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

19.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

20.

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

21.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

22.

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

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

26.

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

27.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

28.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

29.

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

30.

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

31.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

32.

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

33.

We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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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

35.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

36.

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

37.

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

38.

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

40.

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

41.

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

42.

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

43.

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

44.

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

45.

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

46.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

47.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

48.

Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

49.

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