Motivational Quotes

Life

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

- Kirby Larson

Best Quotes about Life

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Alacia Bessette

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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

Seneca

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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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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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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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 given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Ciardi, John

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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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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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.