Motivational Quotes

Life

Half my life is an act of revision.

- Irving, John

Best Quotes about Life

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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

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

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

10.

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

Socrates

11.

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

12.

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

Fields, W. C.

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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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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

18.

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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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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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

24.

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

25.

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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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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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

30.

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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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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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 real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

43.

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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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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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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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

47.

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

48.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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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