Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Best Quotes about Life

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

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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

Moses, Grandma

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

Seneca

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Santayana, George

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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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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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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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

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.