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

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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

Brecht, Bertolt

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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

Prochnow, Herbert

11.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

13.

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

14.

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

Pope John XXIII

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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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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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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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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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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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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 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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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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

Horace

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

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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

Facult, F. Paul

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Isaac Asimov

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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

Seneca