Motivational Quotes

Life

The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

- Gannett, W. C.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Eliot, T. S.

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

13.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

14.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

15.

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

16.

Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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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

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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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

28.

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 mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

30.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

31.

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

33.

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

34.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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

Duncan, Isadora

39.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

41.

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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

Coriolanus III

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

45.

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

Fields, W. C.

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

47.

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

49.

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

50.

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.