Motivational Quotes

Life

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

- Galbraith, John Kenneth

Best Quotes about Life

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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

Salisbury, Harrison

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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

Camus, Albert

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

10.

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

21.

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

22.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

39.

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

43.

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

44.

After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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

Landers, Ann

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

47.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.