Motivational Quotes

Life

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

- Percy, Walker

Best Quotes about Life

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

Broun, Heywood

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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

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

Wally'Famous'Amos

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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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

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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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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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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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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

15.

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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

Wickett, Michael

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

21.

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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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

28.

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

Hume, David

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

39.

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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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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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Isaac Asimov

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.