Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Life

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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

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

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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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

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Russell, Bertrand

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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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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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Kennedy, John F.

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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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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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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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

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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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

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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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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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Michelangelo

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

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall