Motivational Quotes

Life

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Life

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

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

Samuel Butler

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Dane, Frank

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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

Austen, Jane

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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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

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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Live poor so you can die rich.

30.

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.