Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Landers, Ann

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

Proverb, Indian

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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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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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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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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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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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 video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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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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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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

Ben Stein

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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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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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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker