Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Huxtable, Ada Louise

Best Quotes about Life

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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 a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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 filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Kempton, Murray

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

Camus, Albert

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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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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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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

Waitley, Denis