Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Dewey, Thomas E.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Russell, Lady R.

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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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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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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 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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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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

Horace

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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

Santaguida, Paul

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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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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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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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

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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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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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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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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.