Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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

Ciardi, John

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Herzen, Alexander

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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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

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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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

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.