Motivational Quotes

Life

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Life

And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

James, William

The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Brodsky, Joseph

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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

Billings, Josh

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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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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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Samuel Butler

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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 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

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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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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran