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

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

Fran Lebowitz

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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

Wise, Alfonso The

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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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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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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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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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 the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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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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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

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.