Motivational Quotes

Life

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

- Klee, Paul

Best Quotes about Life

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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

Antrim, Minna

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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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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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Keller, Helen

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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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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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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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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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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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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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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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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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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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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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 is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.