Motivational Quotes

Life

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

- Jordan, David Starr

Best Quotes about Life

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Austen, Jane

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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

What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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

Coallier, Steven

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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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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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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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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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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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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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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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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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.