Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Life

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

May, Rollo

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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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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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

Seneca

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

Gellert

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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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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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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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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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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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

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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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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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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

James, William

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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

Isaac Asimov

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert