Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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

Leno, Jay

Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

10.

The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

11.

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

12.

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Ovid

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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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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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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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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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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

Moses, Grandma

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Dane, Frank

33.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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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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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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

William Shakespeare

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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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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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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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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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

Allen, Fred A.