Motivational Quotes

Life

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

- Hewitt, George T.

Best Quotes about Life

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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

Hume, David

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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

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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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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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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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Austen, Jane

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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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 less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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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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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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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 is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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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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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.