Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Life

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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

Burns, George

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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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

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Young, J. Z.

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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

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Rogers, Carl

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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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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

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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

Epicurus

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

33.

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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

Crisp, Quentin

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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 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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Cabell, James Branch

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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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

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.