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

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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

Erickson, Lou

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Mountain, Marian

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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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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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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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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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 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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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Lehrer, Tom

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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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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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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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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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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin