Motivational Quotes

Life

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

- Daniel Akst

Best Quotes about Life

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Allen, Fred A.

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

Camus, Albert

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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

Dante Alighieri

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.

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

William Goldman

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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

Moses, Grandma

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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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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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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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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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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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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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

Simon, Neil

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Santayana, George

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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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

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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.