Motivational Quotes

Life

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Life

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

Oprah Winfrey

What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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

Thibodeau, Robert

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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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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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

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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

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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

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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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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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Bacon, Francis

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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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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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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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

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo