Motivational Quotes

Life

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

- Maclaren, Alexander

Best Quotes about Life

There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Fields, W. C.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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

Butler, Philip

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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

Lennon, John

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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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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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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 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 is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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 is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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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

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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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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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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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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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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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.