Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Life

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Markiewicz, William

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

William Goldman

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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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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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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

Simon, Neil

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.