Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Ben Stein

Best Quotes about Life

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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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

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

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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

Foreman, George

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George