Motivational Quotes

Life

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

- Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Best Quotes about Life

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Dimnet, Ernest

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

11.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

14.

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

15.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

18.

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

Santayana, George

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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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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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

24.

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

31.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

33.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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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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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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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

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

47.

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII