Motivational Quotes

Life

The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

- Woolf, Virginia

Best Quotes about Life

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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

Simon, Neil

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

12.

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

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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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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

16.

To a wise man every day is a new life.

17.

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

18.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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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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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

24.

Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

25.

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

26.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

29.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

30.

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

32.

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

William Shakespeare

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

35.

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

37.

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

James, William

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

Blake, William

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

Welsh, John

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

Shakespeare, William

41.

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

43.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

44.

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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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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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

49.

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret