Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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

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

Landers, Ann

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

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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

Aleichem, Sholom

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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

Camus, Albert

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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

Seneca

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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

Cabell, James Branch

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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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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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

39.

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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 is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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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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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise