Motivational Quotes

Life

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

- Cousteau, Jacques

Best Quotes about Life

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Movie, Forrest Gump

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

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

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Burns, George

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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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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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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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

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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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

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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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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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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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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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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

Coriolanus III

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

Camus, Albert

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Dane, Frank

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.