Motivational Quotes

Life

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

- Caesar, Sid

Best Quotes about Life

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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

Ovid

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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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

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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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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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.