Motivational Quotes

Life

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Life

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Welsh, John

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

23.

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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

Piatt, Don

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

Butler, Samuel

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Stoppard, Tom

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

49.

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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