Motivational Quotes

Life

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

- Drummond, Henry

Best Quotes about Life

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Camus, Albert

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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

The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Berenson, Bernard

10.

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

11.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

12.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

13.

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

14.

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

15.

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

16.

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

Linkletter, Art

17.

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

18.

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

19.

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

20.

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

Nouwen, Henri

21.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

22.

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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

Butler, Samuel

25.

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

26.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

27.

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

28.

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

29.

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Newman, Peter C.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

34.

When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

35.

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

Camus, Albert

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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

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

39.

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

40.

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

44.

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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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Dane, Frank