Motivational Quotes

Life

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Life

The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Butler, Samuel

Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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

Markiewicz, William

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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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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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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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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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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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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

Isherwood, Christopher

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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

Ovid

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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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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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

43.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.