Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

- Facult, F. Paul

Best Quotes about Life

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Pliny The Elder

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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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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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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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 major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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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

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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

Simon, Neil

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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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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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo