Motivational Quotes

Life

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Life

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

16.

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Duncan, Isadora

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

Giles, Henry

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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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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

24.

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

33.

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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

41.

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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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

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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Making a life comes before making a living.

45.

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

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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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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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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My life is a battle.