Motivational Quotes

Life

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Life

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

Live poor so you can die rich.

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.

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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

Blake, William

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

11.

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

12.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

14.

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

18.

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

19.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Truman Capote

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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

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

29.

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

33.

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

38.

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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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

44.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.