Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

11.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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

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

Temple, Sir William

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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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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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

25.

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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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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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

39.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Gellert

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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 as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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

Russell, Lady R.

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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

Santayana, George

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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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