Motivational Quotes

Life

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

- Brecht, Bertolt

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Forster, Edward M.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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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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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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

Hume, David

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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

Dane, Frank

21.

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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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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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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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Dickens, Charles

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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

Aristotle

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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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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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan