Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Newman, Peter C.

Best Quotes about Life

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Presser, Ross

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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

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

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

10.

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

Allen, Fred A.

11.

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

12.

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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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

14.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

15.

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

Jordan, David Starr

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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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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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

19.

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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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

21.

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

Menander of Athens

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

23.

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

24.

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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

29.

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

30.

If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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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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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

34.

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

36.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

37.

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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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

40.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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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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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Woody Allen

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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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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha