Motivational Quotes

Life

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

- Brodsky, Joseph

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Powell, Robert

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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

Coallier, Steven

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

Austen, Jane

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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

Pope John XXIII

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

James, William

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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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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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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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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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

Landers, Ann

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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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

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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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

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

Bible

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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

Coriolanus III

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

Feidelson, Charles