Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Dane, Frank

Best Quotes about Life

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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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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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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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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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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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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

Caesar, Sid

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Simon, Neil

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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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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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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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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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