Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

- Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

Best Quotes about Life

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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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

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

Wickett, Michael

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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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 infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Truman Capote

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

Aristotle

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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

Gellert

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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

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

Mead, Margaret

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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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 not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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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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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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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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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret