Motivational Quotes

Life

We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Life

Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Dickens, Charles

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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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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

Aristotle

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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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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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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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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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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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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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Dante Alighieri

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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 marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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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 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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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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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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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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 art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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 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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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William