Motivational Quotes

Life

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

- Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Best Quotes about Life

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

10.

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

Boulanger, Nadia

11.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

12.

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

14.

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

15.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Russell, Lady R.

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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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

19.

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

Jordan, David Starr

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

24.

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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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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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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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

32.

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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

37.

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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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.

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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

Young, J. Z.

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar