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

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

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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

Calhoun, John C.

10.

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

11.

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

12.

Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

13.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

14.

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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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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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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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 is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

28.

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

29.

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

Landers, Ann

30.

I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

38.

Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

40.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

41.

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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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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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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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin