Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Best Quotes about Life

Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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

Austen, Jane

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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

Keller, Helen

This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kennedy, John F.

Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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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.

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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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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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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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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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Kempton, Murray

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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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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo