Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Maclaren, Alexander

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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

The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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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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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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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine