Motivational Quotes

Life

The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

- Yuan-Sou

Best Quotes about Life

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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 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.

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Isaac Asimov

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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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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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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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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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Rogers, Carl

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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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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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr