Motivational Quotes

Life

Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

- Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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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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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Welsh, John

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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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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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

28.

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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

Brendan Gill

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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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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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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.

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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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

41.

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Fields, W. C.

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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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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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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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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander