Motivational Quotes

Life

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

- Sir Winston Churchill

Best Quotes about Life

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

To a wise man every day is a new life.

Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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

Wolfe, Thomas

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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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

11.

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

12.

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

Seneca

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

22.

Live poor so you can die rich.

23.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

24.

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

Dane, Frank

25.

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Jordan, David Starr

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Coriolanus III

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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

Presser, Ross

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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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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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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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace