Motivational Quotes

Life

Life flows on within you and without you.

- Harrison, George

Best Quotes about Life

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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

Coriolanus III

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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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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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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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

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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

Seneca

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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

Herzen, Alexander

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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

Horton, Doug

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.