Motivational Quotes

Life

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

- Leno, Jay

Best Quotes about Life

Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Keller, Helen

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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

Caesar, Sid

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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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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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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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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

48.

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Lehrer, Tom