Motivational Quotes

Life

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

- Fields, W. C.

Best Quotes about Life

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Live poor so you can die rich.

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Aristotle

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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.

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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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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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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

Pliny The Elder

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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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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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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

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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

Markiewicz, William

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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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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy