Motivational Quotes

Life

The less routine the more life.

- Alcott, Amos Bronson

Best Quotes about Life

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Steve Jobs

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Isaac Asimov

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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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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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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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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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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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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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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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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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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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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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.