Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- James, William

Best Quotes about Life

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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

Lawrence, D. H.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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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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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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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

Proverb, Scottish

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

18.

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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.

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

Lennon, John

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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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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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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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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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

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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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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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

Cook, Robert A.

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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 is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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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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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman