Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Fields, W. C.

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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

Crisp, Quentin

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

10.

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

11.

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

13.

What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

14.

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

Nash, Ogden

15.

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

16.

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

17.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

18.

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

Daniel Akst

19.

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

20.

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

Allen, Fred A.

21.

The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

22.

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

Camus, Albert

23.

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

24.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

26.

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

29.

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

30.

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

31.

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

Wickett, Michael

32.

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

33.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

34.

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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

37.

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

38.

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

Blackie, Professor

39.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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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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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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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