Motivational Quotes

Life

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Life

This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

Making a life comes before making a living.

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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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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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Lennon, John

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

Linkletter, Art

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Horace

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

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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

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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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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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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 a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Hayes, Helen

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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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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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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

Fields, W. C.

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.