Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Life

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

There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Making a life comes before making a living.

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

Wally'Famous'Amos

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Dimnet, Ernest

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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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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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

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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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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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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

Coallier, Steven

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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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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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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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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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Dryden, John

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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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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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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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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

Landers, Ann

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green