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

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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

Herzen, Alexander

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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

Johnson, Samuel

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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

Proverb, German

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

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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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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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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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

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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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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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald