Motivational Quotes

Life

In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

- Hoggart, Simon

Best Quotes about Life

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Michelangelo

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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

Robert Heinlein

10.

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

11.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

12.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

13.

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

14.

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

16.

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

17.

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

18.

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

Coallier, Steven

19.

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

20.

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

21.

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Robbins, Anthony

24.

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

Dickens, Charles

25.

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

26.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

27.

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

28.

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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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

30.

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

31.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

32.

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

Connolly, Cyril

33.

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

Nash, Ogden

34.

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

Herzen, Alexander

35.

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

36.

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

Fran Lebowitz

37.

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

Lennon, John

38.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

39.

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

Tomlin, Lily

40.

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

41.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

42.

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

Duncan, Isadora

43.

To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

44.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

45.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

46.

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

48.

We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

49.

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

50.

There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward