Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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

Hume, David

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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

The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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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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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

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Kempton, Murray

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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

Austen, Jane

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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

Hayes, Helen

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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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

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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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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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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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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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert