Motivational Quotes

Life

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

- Sartre, Jean-Paul

Best Quotes about Life

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

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Fran Lebowitz

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

10.

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

Harington, Donald

11.

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

Lin-Chi

12.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

13.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

14.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

15.

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

Lennon, John

16.

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

17.

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

Cabell, James Branch

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

20.

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

Shakespeare, William

21.

But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

22.

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

Augustine, St.

23.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

24.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

25.

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

26.

The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

27.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

28.

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

29.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

30.

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

Powell, Robert

31.

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

32.

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

33.

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

34.

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

35.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

36.

Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

37.

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

38.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

39.

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

40.

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

41.

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

42.

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

43.

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

44.

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

45.

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

46.

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

Blake, William

47.

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

48.

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

49.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

50.

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