Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Ward, William A.

Best Quotes about Life

1.

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

2.

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

3.

Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

4.

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

5.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

6.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

7.

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

8.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

9.

The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

10.

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

11.

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

12.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

14.

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

15.

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

16.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

17.

The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

18.

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

19.

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

Canetti, Elias

20.

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

21.

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

22.

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

23.

The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

24.

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

William Goldman

25.

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

26.

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

27.

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

Bacon, Francis

28.

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

29.

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

Cook, Robert A.

30.

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

31.

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

32.

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

33.

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

35.

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

36.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

37.

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

38.

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

39.

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

40.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

41.

Live poor so you can die rich.

42.

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

43.

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

44.

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

Gellert

45.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

46.

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

47.

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