Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- James, William

Best Quotes about Life

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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

May, Rollo

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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

Coriolanus III

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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

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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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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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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

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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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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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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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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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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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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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Santayana, George

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius