Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Platen

Best Quotes about Life

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

Simon, Neil

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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

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

Butler, Philip

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

Wolfe, Thomas

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

10.

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

11.

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

12.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

13.

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

14.

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

Fields, W. C.

15.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

16.

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

17.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

19.

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

20.

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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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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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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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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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

25.

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

Jordan, David Starr

26.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

29.

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

30.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

32.

The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

33.

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

34.

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

35.

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

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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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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

38.

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

39.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

40.

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

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

Santayana, George

42.

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

43.

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

McMillan, Terry

44.

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

45.

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

46.

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

Duncan, Isadora

47.

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

48.

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

Pope John XXIII

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.