Motivational Quotes

Life

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Life

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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

Russell, Bertrand

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Ben Stein

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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

Austen, Jane

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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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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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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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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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 uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Dane, Frank

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Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Feidelson, Charles

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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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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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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

Schmaltz, David A.

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius