Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Life

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

Walpole, Horace

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Wally'Famous'Amos

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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

Horton, Doug

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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

Pliny The Elder

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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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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Seneca

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

34.

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

William Shakespeare

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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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

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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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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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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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

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.