Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Giles, Henry

Best Quotes about Life

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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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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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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

Baluch, Joy

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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.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Duncan, Isadora

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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

Socrates

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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

Keller, Helen

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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

Hayes, Helen

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Bacon, Francis