Motivational Quotes

Life

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

- Epicurus

Best Quotes about Life

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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

Keller, Helen

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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

Ben Stein

10.

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

11.

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

12.

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

14.

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

15.

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

18.

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

21.

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Temple, Sir William

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

32.

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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 no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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 is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

40.

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

Canetti, Elias

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

43.

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 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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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell