Motivational Quotes

Life

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

- Rivarol, Antoine

Best Quotes about Life

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Live poor so you can die rich.

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Antrim, Minna

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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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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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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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

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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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 is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

43.

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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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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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay