Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

- Stoppard, Tom

Best Quotes about Life

1.

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

Proverb, Persian

2.

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

Calhoun, John C.

3.

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

4.

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

5.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

6.

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

7.

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

8.

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

Wolfe, Thomas

9.

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

10.

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

11.

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

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

Linkletter, Art

14.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

15.

Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

16.

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

17.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

18.

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

Powell, Robert

19.

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

20.

Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

21.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

22.

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

23.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

24.

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

25.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

26.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

28.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

29.

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

30.

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

31.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

32.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

33.

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

Osler, Sir William

34.

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

35.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

36.

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

37.

Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

38.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

39.

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

40.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

41.

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.