Motivational Quotes

Life

Life's but a day at most.

- Burns, George

Best Quotes about Life

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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

Proverb, Persian

If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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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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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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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

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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

Dane, Frank

31.

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

32.

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Santayana, George

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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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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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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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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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus