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 is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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

Austen, Jane

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

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Antrim, Minna

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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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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Walpole, Horace

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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

Ben Stein

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Jordan, David Starr

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami