Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Dane, Frank

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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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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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

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

Aristotle

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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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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Kempton, Murray

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Pope John XXIII

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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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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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

40.

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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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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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack