Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Augustine, St.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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

Douglas, Michael

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

Temple, Sir William

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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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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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Newman, Peter C.

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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 too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horace

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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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 trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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

Duncan, Isadora

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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

Harington, Donald

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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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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 a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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