Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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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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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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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. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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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

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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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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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

Linkletter, Art

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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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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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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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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard