Motivational Quotes

Life

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Life

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

Ovid

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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

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

Proverb, Scottish

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

10.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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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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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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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Horace

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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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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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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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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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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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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.