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

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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

I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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)

A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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

In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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 not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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

Presser, Ross

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Wise, Alfonso The

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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

Socrates

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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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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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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