Motivational Quotes

Life

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

- Proverb, Persian

Best Quotes about Life

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

Young, J. Z.

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

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

Socrates

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

Gellert

Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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

Platen

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Blake, William

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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

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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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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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.