Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

- Dimnet, Ernest

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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

Calhoun, John C.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

10.

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

11.

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

Proverb, Scottish

12.

The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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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

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

19.

To a wise man every day is a new life.

20.

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

Linkletter, Art

21.

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

22.

There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

23.

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

24.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

25.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

26.

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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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

28.

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

Burns, George

29.

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

30.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

31.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

32.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

34.

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

35.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

36.

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

37.

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

38.

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

39.

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

40.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

42.

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

43.

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

44.

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

45.

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

46.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

47.

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

Markham, Edwin

48.

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

49.

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

50.

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.