Motivational Quotes

Life

My art and profession is to live.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Life

There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Shakespeare, William

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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

Duncan, Isadora

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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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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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Fields, W. C.

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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 ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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

Blake, William

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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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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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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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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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise