Motivational Quotes

Life

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Life

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

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

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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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 has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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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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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Hayes, Helen

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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

Dane, Frank

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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

Nouwen, Henri

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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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 an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Linkletter, Art

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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

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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

James, William