Motivational Quotes

Life

Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

- Russell, Lady R.

Best Quotes about Life

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Walpole, Horace

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

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

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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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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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Seneca

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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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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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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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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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 very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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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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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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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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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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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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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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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 great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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