Motivational Quotes

Life

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

- Huxtable, Ada Louise

Best Quotes about Life

There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Presser, Ross

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

13.

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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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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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

18.

Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Coriolanus III

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

Moses, Grandma

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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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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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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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

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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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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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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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

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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

Berenson, Bernard

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

Allen, Fred A.