Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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

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

Leno, Jay

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Brendan Gill

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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

Alacia Bessette

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

21.

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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

Foreman, George

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Ciardi, John

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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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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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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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 faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.