Motivational Quotes

Life

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

- Weil, Simone

Best Quotes about Life

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

Piatt, Don

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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

Southey, Robert

If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

10.

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

11.

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

Kempis, Thomas

12.

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

Fields, W. C.

13.

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

14.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

15.

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

Aristotle

16.

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

Russell, Bertrand

17.

Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

18.

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

19.

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

21.

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Lehrer, Tom

23.

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

24.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

25.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

26.

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

27.

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

Nash, Ogden

28.

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

29.

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

Crisp, Quentin

30.

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

31.

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

32.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

34.

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

Samuel Butler

35.

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

May, Rollo

36.

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

37.

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.

A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

39.

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

40.

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

Epicurus

41.

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

42.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

43.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

44.

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

Platen

45.

Making a life comes before making a living.

46.

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

47.

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

48.

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

49.

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

50.

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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