Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Kempton, Murray

Best Quotes about Life

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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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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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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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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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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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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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Larkin, Philip

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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

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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

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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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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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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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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 search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose