Motivational Quotes

Life

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Life

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

Bible

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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

Austen, Jane

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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

Jordan, David Starr

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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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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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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

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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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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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Dickens, Charles

43.

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

44.

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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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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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William