Motivational Quotes

Life

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Life

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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

Russell, Lady R.

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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

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Gellert

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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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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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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

30.

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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

33.

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

37.

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 too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Connolly, Cyril

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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.