Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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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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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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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 pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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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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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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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 without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Gurney, Robert

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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

Camus, Albert

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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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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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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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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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

Welsh, John

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.