Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Fields, W. C.

Best Quotes about Life

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Keller, Helen

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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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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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Austen, Jane

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

37.

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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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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

41.

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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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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

Simon, Neil

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor