Motivational Quotes

Life

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

- Wolfe, Thomas

Best Quotes about Life

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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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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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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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.

Billings, Josh

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Clark, Frank A.

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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

Santayana, George

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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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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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Making a life comes before making a living.

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.