Motivational Quotes

Life

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

- Duncan, Isadora

Best Quotes about Life

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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 believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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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

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

28.

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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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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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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

Pope John XXIII

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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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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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.