Motivational Quotes

Life

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

- Benjamin, Walter

Best Quotes about Life

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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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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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

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Foreman, George

25.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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

Kennedy, John F.

30.

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

32.

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

33.

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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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

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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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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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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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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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

45.

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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

Steve Jobs

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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.

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Ward, William A.