Motivational Quotes

Life

Only those live who do good.

- Tolstoy, Count Leo

Best Quotes about Life

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

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Carson, Johnny

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Truman Capote

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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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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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Allen, Fred A.

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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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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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

Lennon, John

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Landers, Ann

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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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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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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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

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray