Motivational Quotes

Life

We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Life

Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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

Camus, Albert

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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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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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

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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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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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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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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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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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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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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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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 full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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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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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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

Pope John XXIII

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell