Motivational Quotes

Life

We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

- Lawrence, D. H.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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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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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Berenson, Bernard

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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

Hayes, Helen

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

Norman Thomas

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Newman, Peter C.

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.