Motivational Quotes

Life

And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Life

I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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

Dane, Frank

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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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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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Butler, Samuel

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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