Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Dane, Frank

Best Quotes about Life

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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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.

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Bacon, Francis

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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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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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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

Welsh, John

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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

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb