Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Antrim, Minna

Best Quotes about Life

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Hayes, Helen

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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

Proverb, Scottish

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

10.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

11.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

12.

I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

13.

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

14.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

15.

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

16.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

18.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

19.

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

20.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

21.

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

22.

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

23.

Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

24.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

25.

Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

26.

Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

27.

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

28.

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

29.

Making a life comes before making a living.

30.

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

31.

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

34.

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

35.

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

36.

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

37.

The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

38.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

39.

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

40.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

41.

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

42.

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

43.

To a wise man every day is a new life.

44.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

45.

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

46.

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

47.

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

Simon, Neil

48.

And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

49.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William