Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Life

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

Salisbury, Harrison

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Nash, Ogden

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

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

Hayes, Helen

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Barrymore, John

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Southey, Robert

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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.

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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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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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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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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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

Calhoun, John C.

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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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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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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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey