Motivational Quotes

Life

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

- Markiewicz, William

Best Quotes about Life

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Huxley, Aldous

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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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

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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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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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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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