Motivational Quotes

Life

Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

- Russell, Lady R.

Best Quotes about Life

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

10.

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

Burns, George

11.

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

12.

Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

13.

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

15.

Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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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

18.

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

19.

Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

20.

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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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

22.

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

25.

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

28.

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

29.

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

Presser, Ross

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

32.

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

33.

Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

34.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

35.

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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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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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

40.

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

Hewitt, George T.

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

44.

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

45.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

47.

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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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James