Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Rivarol, Antoine

Best Quotes about Life

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

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Piatt, Don

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

Dante Alighieri

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

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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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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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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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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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.

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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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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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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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

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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 reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.