Motivational Quotes

Life

Life's but a day at most.

- Burns, George

Best Quotes about Life

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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

Maclaren, Alexander

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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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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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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

Santayana, George

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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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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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Wise, Alfonso The

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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

Gellert

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey