Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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

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

Rogers, Carl

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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

Dawson, Roger

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

Schmaltz, David A.

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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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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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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 two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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

Caesar, Sid

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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

Hayes, Helen

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard