Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Carson, Johnny

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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

Stoppard, Tom

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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

Gurney, Robert

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

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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

Carson, Rachel

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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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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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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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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

Coallier, Steven

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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

Proverb, Scottish

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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

Horace

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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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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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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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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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.