Motivational Quotes

Life

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)

Best Quotes about Life

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

Crisp, Quentin

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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

Fields, W. C.

A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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

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

Harington, Donald

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

10.

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

11.

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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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

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

Platen

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

Lin-Chi

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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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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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

22.

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Schuller, Robert H.

24.

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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

May, Rollo

28.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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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

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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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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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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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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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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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

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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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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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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.