Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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

Caesar, Sid

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Landers, Ann

What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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

Santaguida, Paul

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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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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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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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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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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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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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.