Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Life

Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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

Broun, Heywood

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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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Making a life comes before making a living.

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

Temple, Sir William

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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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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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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

Herold, Don

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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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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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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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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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Ciardi, John

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb