Motivational Quotes

Life

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Life

The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Mountain, Marian

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

Southey, Robert

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Allen, Fred A.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

10.

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

11.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

12.

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

13.

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

14.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

15.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

16.

Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

17.

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

Gurney, Robert

18.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

19.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

20.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

22.

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

23.

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

Lennon, John

24.

Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

25.

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

26.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

27.

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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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

29.

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

30.

Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

31.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

32.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

33.

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

34.

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

Canetti, Elias

35.

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

36.

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

Feidelson, Charles

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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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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

39.

Live poor so you can die rich.

40.

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

41.

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

42.

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

43.

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

Herzen, Alexander

44.

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

Duncan, Isadora

45.

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

Bachelard, Gaston

46.

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

47.

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

48.

Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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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