Motivational Quotes

Life

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

- Fields, W. C.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Salisbury, Harrison

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Wolfe, Thomas

10.

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

12.

Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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

Augustine, St.

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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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

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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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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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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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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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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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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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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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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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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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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

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.