Motivational Quotes

Life

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

- Benjamin, Walter

Best Quotes about Life

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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

Wise, Alfonso The

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Rogers, Carl

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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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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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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