Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a horizontal fall.

- Cocteau, Jean

Best Quotes about Life

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

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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

Ovid

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

10.

We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

11.

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

12.

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

13.

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

14.

Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

15.

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

James, William

16.

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

17.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

18.

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

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

20.

So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

21.

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

Kempis, Thomas

22.

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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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

29.

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

30.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

31.

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

35.

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

37.

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

Austen, Jane

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

39.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

40.

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

41.

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

42.

The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

43.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

44.

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

45.

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

46.

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

47.

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

48.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo