Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Life

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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

Santayana, George

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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

Calhoun, John C.

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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

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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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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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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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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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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane