Motivational Quotes

Life

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Life

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Stoppard, Tom

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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

Seneca

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

Aleichem, Sholom

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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

Calhoun, John C.

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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

Norman Thomas

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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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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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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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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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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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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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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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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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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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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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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

Dickens, Charles

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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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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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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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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

Dante Alighieri

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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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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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher