Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

Best Quotes about Life

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Calhoun, John C.

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.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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

Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Powell, Robert

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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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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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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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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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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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

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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

Truman Capote

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Shields, Carol

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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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