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

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Ben Stein

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Billings, Josh

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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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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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Kant, Immanuel

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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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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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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

Shakespeare, William

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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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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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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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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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Robert Heinlein

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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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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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder