Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

- Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Life

A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Dyer, Wayne

Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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

Fields, W. C.

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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

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

Socrates

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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

Michelangelo

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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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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

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Hanks, Tom

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.