Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Life

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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.

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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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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

Mark Hodder

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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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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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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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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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

28.

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

Markham, Edwin

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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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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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

Dane, Frank

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

43.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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