Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Dewey, Thomas E.

Best Quotes about Life

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

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

Seneca

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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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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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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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Santayana, George

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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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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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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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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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.

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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 city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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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 in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

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

Dane, Frank

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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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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My art and profession is to live.