Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is just one damned thing after another.

- Elbert Hubbard

Best Quotes about Life

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

10.

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

11.

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

12.

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

13.

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

Santayana, George

14.

Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

15.

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

17.

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

18.

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

19.

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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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

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

26.

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

30.

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 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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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

34.

Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

35.

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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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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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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

Dickens, Charles

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.