Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is too short to learn German.

- Porson, R.

Best Quotes about Life

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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

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

Socrates

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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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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

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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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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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Jordan, David Starr

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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 is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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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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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Dante Alighieri

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

43.

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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

William Shakespeare

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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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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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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.