Motivational Quotes

Life

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

- Drummond, Henry

Best Quotes about Life

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Allen, Fred A.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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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 may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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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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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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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

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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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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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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

Calhoun, John C.

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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

Kennedy, John F.

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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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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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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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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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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

Mountain, Marian

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.