Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Life

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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

Dickens, Charles

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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

Shakespeare, William

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of 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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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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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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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Harington, Donald

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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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

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Samuel Butler

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

Wickett, Michael

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.