Motivational Quotes

Life

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

- Southey, Robert

Best Quotes about Life

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Miller, Henry

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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

Pliny The Elder

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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

Landers, Ann

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Dryden, John

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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

Santayana, George

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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 existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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

Michelangelo

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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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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean