Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Life

Live poor so you can die rich.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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.

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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

Walpole, Horace

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

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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

Michelangelo

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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

Coallier, Steven

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Blake, William

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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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

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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

Lennon, John

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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

Landers, Ann