Motivational Quotes

Life

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Life

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

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Norman Thomas

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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

Lennon, John

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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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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

12.

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

13.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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

Ciardi, John

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

18.

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

19.

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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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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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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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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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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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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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

28.

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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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

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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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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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

39.

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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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Menander of Athens

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

43.

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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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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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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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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