Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

1.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

2.

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

3.

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

4.

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

Epicurus

5.

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

6.

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

7.

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

Newman, Peter C.

8.

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

9.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

10.

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

Osler, Sir William

11.

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

12.

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

13.

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

14.

A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

15.

What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

16.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

17.

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

18.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

19.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

20.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

21.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

22.

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

23.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

24.

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

Calhoun, John C.

25.

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

26.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

27.

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

30.

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

31.

I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

32.

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

33.

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

34.

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

35.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

36.

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

Lin-Chi

37.

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

38.

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

39.

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

40.

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

41.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

42.

The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

43.

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

44.

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

45.

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

46.

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

Orben, Robert