Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a horizontal fall.

- Cocteau, Jean

Best Quotes about Life

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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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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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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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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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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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 not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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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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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

McMillan, Terry

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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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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Camus, Albert

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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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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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Gellert

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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