Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- John Lennon

Best Quotes about Life

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

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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

Buscaglia, Leo

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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

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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 has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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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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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Antrim, Minna

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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

Billings, Josh

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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

Norris, Kathleen

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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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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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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

Bacon, Francis

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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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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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria