Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Duncan, Isadora

Best Quotes about Life

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

Markham, Edwin

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

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

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

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Seneca

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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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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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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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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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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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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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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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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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

Simon, Neil

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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

Bacon, Francis

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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

Pliny The Elder

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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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 but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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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.

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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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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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis