Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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

Duncan, Isadora

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

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

Blackie, Professor

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

Feidelson, Charles

We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

11.

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

12.

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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

Pope John XXIII

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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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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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Billings, Josh

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mountain, Marian

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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

Santayana, George

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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

Kempton, Murray

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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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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman