Motivational Quotes

Life

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

- Gellert

Best Quotes about Life

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Debevoise, P. L.

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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

Norman Thomas

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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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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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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

Facult, F. Paul

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

Miller, Henry

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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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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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

34.

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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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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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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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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

Linkletter, Art

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

47.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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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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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher