Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Life

1.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

2.

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

3.

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

4.

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

5.

Live poor so you can die rich.

6.

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

7.

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

8.

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

9.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

10.

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

11.

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

12.

Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

13.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

14.

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

15.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

16.

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

17.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

18.

The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

19.

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

20.

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

21.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

23.

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

24.

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

25.

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

26.

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

Pope John XXIII

27.

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

28.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

32.

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

33.

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

34.

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

35.

When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

36.

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

Brodsky, Joseph

37.

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

38.

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

39.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

40.

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

41.

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

42.

Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

43.

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.

44.

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

Newman, Peter C.

45.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

46.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

47.

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