Motivational Quotes

Life

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about Life

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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

Dane, Frank

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Orben, Robert

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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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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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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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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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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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

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

Ciardi, John

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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

Pasternak, Boris

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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

Simon, Neil

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst