Motivational Quotes

Life

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Life

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Burns, George

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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

Herold, Don

10.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

11.

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Making a life comes before making a living.

16.

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

Ciardi, John

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

21.

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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 a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

30.

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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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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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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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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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

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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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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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

Dickens, Charles

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

44.

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John