Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

- Marcos, Imelda

Best Quotes about Life

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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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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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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

McMillan, Terry

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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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

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Canetti, Elias

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler