Motivational Quotes

Life

Half my life is an act of revision.

- Irving, John

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Norris, Kathleen

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

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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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

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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

Dickens, Charles

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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

21.

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

Austen, Jane

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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 real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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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

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Isaac Asimov

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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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 is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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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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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh