Motivational Quotes

Life

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

- Galiani, Ferdinando

Best Quotes about Life

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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

Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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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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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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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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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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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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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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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

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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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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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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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.