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

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

Waitley, Denis

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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

Wickett, Michael

To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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

Delacroix, Eugene

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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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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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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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

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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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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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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 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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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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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.