Motivational Quotes

Life

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

- Gurney, Robert

Best Quotes about Life

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

Crisp, Quentin

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

10.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Burns, George

12.

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

13.

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

Russell, Bertrand

14.

Live poor so you can die rich.

15.

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

16.

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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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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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

20.

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

21.

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

22.

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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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

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

27.

Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

28.

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

Nash, Ogden

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

30.

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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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

32.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

33.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

34.

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

35.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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

Robert Heinlein

38.

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

39.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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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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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

46.

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

47.

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

Proverb, Scottish

48.

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

Pope John XXIII

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.