Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Fields, W. C.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Epicurus

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

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

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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 does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Canetti, Elias

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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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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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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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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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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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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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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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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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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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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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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