Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Life

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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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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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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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 solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

William Goldman

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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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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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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

Camus, Albert

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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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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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.