Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Mead, Margaret

Best Quotes about Life

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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

Kempton, Murray

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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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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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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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 life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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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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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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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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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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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

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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