Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Life

This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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

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

Cousteau, Jacques

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Duncan, Isadora

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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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

18.

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Presser, Ross

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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

Seneca

28.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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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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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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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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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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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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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

40.

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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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

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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

Feidelson, Charles

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.