Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

- Baker, Russell (Wayne)

Best Quotes about Life

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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

Ward, William A.

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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

Osler, Sir William

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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

Byron, Lord

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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

Ciardi, John

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

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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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 too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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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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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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

Horace

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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 supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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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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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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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.