Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Duncan, Isadora

Best Quotes about Life

Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Young, J. Z.

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

10.

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

11.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

28.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

29.

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

30.

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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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

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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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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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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.

35.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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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 is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

41.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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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 an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder