Motivational Quotes

Life

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

- Baudelaire, Charles

Best Quotes about Life

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

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

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.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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

Ben Stein

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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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

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Nash, Ogden

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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

Menander of Athens

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

Nouwen, Henri

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Mountain, Marian

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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

Landers, Ann

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Mark Hodder

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.