Motivational Quotes

Life

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Life

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

Brecht, Bertolt

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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

Linkletter, Art

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

10.

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

Russell, Lady R.

12.

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

Shakespeare, William

13.

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

14.

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

Nash, Ogden

15.

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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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

17.

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

Heath, David M.

18.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

19.

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

20.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

21.

Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

22.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

23.

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

24.

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

25.

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

26.

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

27.

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

28.

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

29.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

30.

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

31.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

32.

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

33.

The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

34.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

35.

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

36.

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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

Austen, Jane

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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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

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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

41.

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

Tomlin, Lily

42.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

49.

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

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul