Motivational Quotes

Life

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

- Markham, Edwin

Best Quotes about Life

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

Kennedy, John F.

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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 screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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

Newman, Peter C.

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Walpole, Horace

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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

Horace

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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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 can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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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 not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Byron, Lord

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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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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Woody Allen

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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