Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

- Tremain, Rose

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Proverb, Indian

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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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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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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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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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

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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

Santayana, George

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

Presser, Ross

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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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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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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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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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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

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

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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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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dawson, Roger

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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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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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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter