Motivational Quotes

Life

Those who live are those who fight.

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Life

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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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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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

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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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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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Horace

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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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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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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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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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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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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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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

41.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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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 must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump