Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Boom, Corrie Ten

Best Quotes about Life

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Osler, Sir William

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Byron, Lord

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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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 less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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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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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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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 life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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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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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is too short to learn German.