Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Life

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Herzen, Alexander

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

Austen, Jane

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Isherwood, Christopher

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

Wickett, Michael

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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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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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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

Presser, Ross

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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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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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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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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Welsh, John

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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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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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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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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