Motivational Quotes

Life

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

- Hanks, Tom

Best Quotes about Life

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

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.

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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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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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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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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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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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

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

Brendan Gill

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

Bacon, Francis

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Ward, William A.

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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

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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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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs