Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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

Rogers, Carl

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

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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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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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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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

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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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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

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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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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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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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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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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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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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya