Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Blackie, Professor

Best Quotes about Life

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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

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

Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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

Camus, Albert

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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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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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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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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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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

Allen, Fred A.

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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 fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart