Motivational Quotes

Life

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Life

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Fuller, Thomas

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Seneca

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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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

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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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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Live poor so you can die rich.

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Welsh, John

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Santayana, George

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

Barrymore, John

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

Dane, Frank

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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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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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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 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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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Platen

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Those who live are those who fight.