Motivational Quotes

Life

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

- Wright, Steven

Best Quotes about Life

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Bible

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

William Goldman

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

Wright, Steven

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

10.

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

11.

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

Proverb, Persian

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.

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

14.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

18.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

19.

I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

20.

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

21.

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

Newman, Peter C.

22.

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

23.

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

24.

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

25.

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

26.

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

27.

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

Billings, Josh

28.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

29.

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

30.

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

31.

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

32.

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

33.

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

34.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

35.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

36.

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

37.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

38.

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

39.

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

40.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

41.

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

42.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

43.

To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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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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Wright, Steven

46.

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

47.

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

48.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

49.

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

50.

This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William