Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Life

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

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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.

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

10.

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

Wolfe, Thomas

11.

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

12.

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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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

17.

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

18.

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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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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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

25.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

26.

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

29.

Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

30.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

31.

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

33.

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

35.

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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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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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

39.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hayes, Helen

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

44.

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

Mead, Margaret

45.

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

46.

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 is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

48.

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

Woody Allen

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch