Motivational Quotes

Life

The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

- Baudrillard, Jean

Best Quotes about Life

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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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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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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

Simon, Neil

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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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

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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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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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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

Pope John XXIII

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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

Welsh, John

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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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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

33.

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

34.

Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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

Allen, Fred A.

40.

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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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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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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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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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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

Franklin, Benjamin