Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Life

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Fields, W. C.

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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

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

Proverb, Indian

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Markham, Edwin

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

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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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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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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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

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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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

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Seneca

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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

Wright, Steven

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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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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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya