Motivational Quotes

Life

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

- Delacroix, Eugene

Best Quotes about Life

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

Platen

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

Booth, Evangeline Cory

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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

Caesar, Sid

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

To a wise man every day is a new life.

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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

Fields, W. C.

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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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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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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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

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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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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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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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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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 live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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

Kempton, Murray

41.

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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

44.

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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

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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