Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Kempton, Murray

Best Quotes about Life

After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Herzen, Alexander

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

18.

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

19.

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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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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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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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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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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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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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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

Feidelson, Charles

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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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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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

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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 a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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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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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

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

Blackie, Professor

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

50.

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