Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Life

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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

Mountain, Marian

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

10.

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

11.

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

Markham, Edwin

12.

Live poor so you can die rich.

13.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

14.

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Dane, Frank

18.

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

20.

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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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

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

Billings, Josh

25.

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

26.

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

27.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

28.

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

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

30.

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

31.

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Schmaltz, David A.

35.

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

36.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

37.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

38.

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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

Santayana, George

40.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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