Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Life

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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

Dane, Frank

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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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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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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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

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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

Miller, Henry

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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

Simon, Neil

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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

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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

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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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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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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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