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

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

Camus, Albert

So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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.

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Bacon, Francis

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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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

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Herold, Don

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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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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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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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.