Motivational Quotes

Life

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Life

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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

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

Norman Thomas

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Pasternak, Boris

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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

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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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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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

Seneca

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

Camus, Albert

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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 like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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The city is recruited from the country.

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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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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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.

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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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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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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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 something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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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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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.