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 not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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

May, Rollo

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Fields, W. C.

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Calhoun, John C.

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Austen, Jane

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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

Ovid

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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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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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.