Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Boulanger, Nadia

Best Quotes about Life

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Pope John XXIII

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

11.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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

Welsh, John

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

18.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

19.

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

23.

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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

Schmaltz, David A.

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

33.

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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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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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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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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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

44.

To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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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

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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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