Motivational Quotes

Life

When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

- Artaud, Antonin

Best Quotes about Life

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

Piatt, Don

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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

Dickens, Charles

10.

Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

11.

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

12.

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

13.

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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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.

15.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

16.

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

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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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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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

22.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

23.

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

24.

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

25.

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

Landers, Ann

26.

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

30.

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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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.

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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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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

37.

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

Mead, Margaret

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

39.

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

Shakespeare, William

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

45.

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

Hanks, Tom

46.

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

Butler, Samuel

47.

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

48.

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

50.

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George