Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Russell, Lady R.

Best Quotes about Life

The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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

Truman Capote

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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

Wickett, Michael

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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

Larkin, Philip

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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

Presser, Ross

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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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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

32.

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

Hewitt, George T.

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.