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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Nash, Ogden

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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

Santayana, George

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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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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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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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 series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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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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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger