Motivational Quotes

Life

In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

- Hoggart, Simon

Best Quotes about Life

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

Pope John XXIII

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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 at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Santayana, George

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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

Duncan, Isadora

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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

Coallier, Steven

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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 sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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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

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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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