Motivational Quotes

Life

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Life

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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

Bacon, Francis

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Samuel Butler

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Horace

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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.

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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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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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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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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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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

Lennon, John

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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

Camus, Albert

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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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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.