Motivational Quotes

Life

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Life

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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

Herold, Don

A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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

Carson, Rachel

10.

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

11.

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

12.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

13.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

14.

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

16.

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

24.

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

25.

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

26.

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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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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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

29.

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

30.

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

Coallier, Steven

31.

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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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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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

35.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

41.

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

46.

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin