Motivational Quotes

Life

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

- Fields, W. C.

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Stoppard, Tom

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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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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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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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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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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

Antrim, Minna

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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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 moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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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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Making a life comes before making a living.

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst