Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Best Quotes about Life

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

Horace

There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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

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

Coriolanus III

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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

Burns, George

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

Harington, Donald

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

13.

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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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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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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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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

Rogers, Carl

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

21.

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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

Lennon, John

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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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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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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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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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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

Caesar, Sid

45.

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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

Samuel Butler

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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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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.