Motivational Quotes

Life

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Life

There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Markiewicz, William

Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

11.

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

12.

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

Dryden, John

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

14.

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

15.

Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

18.

Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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

Menander of Athens

22.

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

23.

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

24.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

25.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

26.

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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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

28.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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.

30.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

31.

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

32.

Live poor so you can die rich.

33.

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

34.

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

35.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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

Thibodeau, Robert

38.

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

39.

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

40.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

44.

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

45.

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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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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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Linkletter, Art