Motivational Quotes

Life

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Life

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Steve Jobs

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

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

Ciardi, John

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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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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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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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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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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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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

William Shakespeare

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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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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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

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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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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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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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.