Motivational Quotes

Life

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

- Basset, Lucinda

Best Quotes about Life

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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

Thoreau, Henry David

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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

Horace

Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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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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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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

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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 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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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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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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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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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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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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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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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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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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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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 hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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

41.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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

Carson, Johnny

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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 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

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green