Motivational Quotes

Life

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Life

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

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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

Lennon, John

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.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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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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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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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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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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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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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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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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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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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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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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

McMillan, Terry

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

35.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

36.

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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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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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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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey