Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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 without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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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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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Schmaltz, David A.

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, 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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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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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

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.