Motivational Quotes

Life

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Life

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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

Fields, W. C.

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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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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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Ciardi, John

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

34.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Dickens, Charles

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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.