Motivational Quotes

Life

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

- Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Life

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Berenson, Bernard

There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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Live poor so you can die rich.

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

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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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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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

Proverb, Persian

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Coallier, Steven

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

Duncan, Isadora

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end