Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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

Herzen, Alexander

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

10.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

11.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

12.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

13.

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

18.

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

Austen, Jane

19.

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

21.

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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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

23.

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

26.

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

27.

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

28.

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

29.

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

30.

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

33.

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

Kempton, Murray

34.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

35.

But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

39.

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

Bible

40.

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

41.

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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

Walpole, Horace

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

Calhoun, John C.

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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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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

46.

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory