Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Life

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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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 is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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

Hayes, Helen

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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

Gurney, Robert

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Lennon, John

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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