Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Life

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

Booth, Evangeline Cory

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

Making a life comes before making a living.

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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

Herzen, Alexander

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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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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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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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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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

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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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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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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

Newman, Peter C.

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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

Santayana, George

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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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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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