Motivational Quotes

Life

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Life

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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

Simon, Neil

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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

Kant, Immanuel

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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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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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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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.

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Butler, Samuel

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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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

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

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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

Keller, Helen

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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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.

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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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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene