Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Life

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Dante Alighieri

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

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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

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

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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

Wolfe, Thomas

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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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 begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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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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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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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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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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

Fields, W. C.

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy