Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Life

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

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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 is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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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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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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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

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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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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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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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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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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

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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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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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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Pope John XXIII

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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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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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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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