Motivational Quotes

Life

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

- Harris, Sidney J.

Best Quotes about Life

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Horace

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

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Berenson, Bernard

Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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

Burns, George

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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

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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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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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

Moses, Grandma

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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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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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

35.

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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