Motivational Quotes

Life

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

- Drummond, Henry

Best Quotes about Life

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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

Daniel Akst

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

11.

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

12.

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

Giles, Henry

13.

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

14.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

15.

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

16.

Live poor so you can die rich.

17.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

21.

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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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

23.

Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

24.

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

25.

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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

Nash, Ogden

27.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

28.

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

29.

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

30.

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

31.

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

36.

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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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 like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

39.

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

40.

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome