Motivational Quotes

Life

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Life

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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

Gurney, Robert

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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

Allen, Fred A.

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

10.

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

11.

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

12.

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

13.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

14.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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 for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

18.

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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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

20.

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

21.

In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

25.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

26.

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

29.

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

Austen, Jane

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

32.

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.

Disraeli, Benjamin

33.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

34.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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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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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

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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 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

40.

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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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

42.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

43.

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

46.

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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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

48.

Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

49.

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

50.

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French