Motivational Quotes

Life

To live is not breathing it is action.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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.

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

10.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

11.

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

12.

Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

13.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Austen, Jane

16.

Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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

18.

Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

19.

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

20.

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

21.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

24.

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

25.

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

Norris, Kathleen

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

28.

Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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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

30.

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

Blake, William

31.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

32.

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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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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

38.

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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

Socrates

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

McMillan, Terry

43.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

44.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

45.

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

Crisp, Quentin

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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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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

49.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Life is too short to learn German.