Motivational Quotes

Life

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

- Lorca, Federico Garcia

Best Quotes about Life

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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

McMillan, Terry

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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

Powell, Robert

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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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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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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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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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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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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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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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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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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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.