Motivational Quotes

Life

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

- Douglas, Michael

Best Quotes about Life

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

Ciardi, John

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

12.

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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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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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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

Thibodeau, Robert

18.

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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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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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

23.

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

Fields, W. C.

24.

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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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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

Heath, David M.

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

38.

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

Hume, David

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

49.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch