Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Life

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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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

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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

John Lennon

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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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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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Fields, W. C.

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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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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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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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