Motivational Quotes

Life

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Life

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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

Kempton, Murray

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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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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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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

Baluch, Joy

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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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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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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

Blackie, Professor

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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 a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

39.

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

40.

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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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 moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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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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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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

Berenson, Bernard

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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

Feidelson, Charles