Motivational Quotes

Life

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Life

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Propp Jr., Fred

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Hume, David

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Kant, Immanuel

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

McMillan, Terry

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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 is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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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

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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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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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace