Motivational Quotes

Life

There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

- Seattle, Chief

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

10.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

11.

Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

12.

In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

13.

Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

14.

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

15.

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

16.

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

18.

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

Platen

19.

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

Fields, W. C.

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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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

22.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

23.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

25.

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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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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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

28.

Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

29.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

30.

Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Bible

32.

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

33.

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

34.

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

36.

The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

37.

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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

Young, J. Z.

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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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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

43.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

45.

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

46.

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

Butler, Samuel

47.

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

48.

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

Pope John XXIII

49.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy