Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Brodsky, Joseph

Best Quotes about Life

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Schmaltz, David A.

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

Brodsky, Joseph

This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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

Hubbard, Elbert

10.

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

11.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

Powell, Robert

13.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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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

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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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.

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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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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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

James, William

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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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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Hayes, Helen

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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

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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

Feidelson, Charles

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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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

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry