Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

- Erickson, Lou

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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.

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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

Calhoun, John C.

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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

Austen, Jane

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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

Seneca

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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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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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 have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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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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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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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

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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

James, William