Motivational Quotes

Life

The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

- Stark, Freya

Best Quotes about Life

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Douglas, Michael

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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

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

Jordan, David Starr

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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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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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

Walpole, Horace

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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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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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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

William Shakespeare

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph