Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is just a journey

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Life

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

To a wise man every day is a new life.

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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

Lin-Chi

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Platen

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

10.

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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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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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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

Santayana, George

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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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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

18.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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

Coriolanus III

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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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 continual process of remaking ourselves.

27.

The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

28.

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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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Herold, Don

33.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Dante Alighieri

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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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

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

43.

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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

Santaguida, Paul

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

Conrad, Joseph

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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.